You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

But I feel like I can go out there and do what I need to do.

Kindness is the music that softens every heart and fills it with ineffable joy.

One who conquers fear conquers his greatest enemy.

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail.

I argue very well. Just ask any of my remaining friends.

Sometimes you have to lose to win again.

My family pleaded with me to forget literature and do something sensible, such as find some sort of useful work.

I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.

History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.