Yes, I was in that game where George Brett hit that home run. Billy saw there was too much pine tar on the bat and he went to the umpire, the next thing we knew they were fighting about it.

Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

I've been in eleven no-hitters you know.

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

God, she was beautiful. Hair a tangled mess, clothes torn, lips pale and swollen, skin streaked in dirt. And she was so damn beautiful and flawed and perfect.

Without vision, a church devolves into a lukewarm, aimless organization characterized by infighting, budget grabbing and a dead heart for the lost.

To understand is to possess the thing understood, first by sympathy and then by intelligence.

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

Parents often brag about the amount of money spent per child, but I think, perhaps ironically, those great monies that are spent - I call it putting a band-aid on a hemorrhage.

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.