You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball.

You're born with two strikes against you, so don't take a third one on your own.

There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

You can't win them all.

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.

I'm not going to tell a person how to think, don't believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don't be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let's see if you can still find the footing.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

I remember seeing 'Pitch Perfect' and loving it right away. It's hilarious!

History isnt about dates and places and wars. Its about the people who fill the spaces between them.

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

The 'SAMS' study, titled 'A New Normal: Ongoing Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria', reveals that the Assad regime merely switched from sarin gas to chlorine gas in its bombardment of civilians areas.

What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists, is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Energy can't be created or destroyed, and energy flows. It must be in a direction, with some kind of internal, emotive, spiritual direction. It must have some effect somewhere.

As a former board member for Teach For America, I understand that every child has the ability to learn and that, no matter their circumstances at home, we have a duty and a responsibility to educate them and to do it well.

I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.

You don't want money to make you a social freak where you can only hang out with rich people.

I work day-to-day on C# and .Net and work at home two days a week so I can do deep thinking, writing and reflecting.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Iraq is falling apart.

I had to have a large kitchen because I look to cook.

I need to go play football. I don't care about anything else.

No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly write. A born writer has self-knowledge. Read, read, read. And if you are a fiction writer, don't confine yourself to reading fiction. Every writer is first a wide reader.

People say that age is just a state of mind. I say it's more about the state of your body.

When you read something you have written, you have to confront some of the lies you have been telling yourself.

My mom just understands about stuff. We have a really good trust, and she knows I can take care of myself.

Properly practiced creativity can make one ad do the work of ten.

As sure as the sun will rise every morning and set in the evening just the same, I will love you all the days of my life.

My curves are not crazy.

In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less.