until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?

the reason for anger is always fear.

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You'll be singing for the world someday.

You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.

When you can literally Google anything, you don't feel like you have to go see it in person. You can do a lot of traveling in your bedroom, but you're not touching anything and you're not feeling it.

It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

The number one worst piece of horsemanship on earth is violence.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.