You can't always control the circumstances - only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.

Never limit yourself, never be satisfied, and smile-it's free!

To some Softball is a game; to others it's Life.

And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself'.

Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others. Discover your gifts and let them shine!

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.

We're [Avocado League] trying to just urge people to add avocado into their diet. It's healthy and full of vitamins and minerals.

I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.

I don't want to be just a face. I want to go out there and prove something on the field.

When I was 12, I had a coach tell me I would never be a championship pitcher. That devastated me. I was crushed.

Every creative act – in science, art, or religion – involves a regression to a more primitive level, a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted beliefs.

So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent.

The truth is always simpler than you can imagine.

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.

Holy persons draw to themselves all that is earthly.

Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race--unhappily.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

I know what it's like to be a model and go to castings where some people like what they see and others look at you with distaste.

Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?