Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.

If I don't make the team out of spring training, I'll keep a good attitude. I'll just go polish up the parts of my game that made me not stay in the big leagues.

Sometimes I felt I got caught up kind of going into the clubhouse non-chalantly sometimes, because all of the other guys in the clubhouse didn't go there with one goal in mind.

I made a lot of good friends in Philadelphia and the last thing that I would want to do is dog anyone in that clubhouse. If I made it sound like that, it was a mistake.

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.

The flying? I'm not worried about it. I'm safe up there. I feel very comfortable with my abilities flying an airplane.

Really, anyone can learn how to fly. If you can drive a bus, you can fly an airplane.

I may not be in the weight room as much as some guys, but I get my work done.

Life is full of challenges. In the end it's getting up that pulls us through the dark day's. So that we can admire the sunset

Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.

A cup of wisdom is more valuable than an ocean of intelligence.

I love to receive a beautiful postcard from your place of voyage.

nonviolence first changes the individual.

I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

People see your reviews sometimes, and it's so good that they think I wrote it. And I'm like, "OK, yeah, I wrote it. And I own the company that put it out."

The problem with K-12 education is socialism and the solution is capitalism.