A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society._

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.

The work I've done through my Common Culture Music series has enabled me not only to share my joy of music at scale but also promote the artists I love.

I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment youre just a mother. The next you are all wise and prehistoric.

My children were the center of my life.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

I don't believe in doubt.

Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

Terms such as 'microaggression,' describing an inadvertent act of offense, have entered the college lexicon, empowering an atmosphere of prior restraint on speech. And many colleges are also disinviting speakers in fear of offending certain elements of their student communities.

I didn't use to think anything was worth keeping private. Now I do.

'Answer The Call' - we're trying to support the real heroes of our world, the people who protect us and afford us freedom and give us that peace of mind.

I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.

No matter how hard I try to keep up with it there is always a mountain of laundry. I'm starting to think its self-breeding.

Worship is the grand theme of the Bible.