You might think that nobody’s insides are as messy as your insides. That’s an optical delusion. You only see other people’s outsides – never their insides. So you can’t possibly know.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

People are suckers for the truth and they know it when they see it. Open your soul and they will stop and watch.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

I try to spend as much time as possible with God and my family. That's more important than anything I'm doing in baseball.

Remember, no matter how hard your life is right now, it would be worse if a song by Chicago was playing.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

We continued to build the business, even in the worst of times. We do business all over America.

One of the most important things as a writing instructor is to provide a lot of different entry points to subjects. To not impose your own personal experience as the One True Way.

The student is to read history actively and not passively.

No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it is your reaction.