Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.

The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.

Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.

I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

When people get placed upon a pedestal - when they start chasing after that person on the pedestal - they become mannequin-like.

You should seek approval from yourself.

I've started taking long walks in the park, which is quite wonderful.

To give and not expect return that is what lies at the heart of love.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and movies offer us a chance to come together and have a communal experience.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are drivers.

For me, work is one thing, and my life is another.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

It's about the characters, it's about the film, it's about the process of making stunning visuals and a huge, epic movie. It doesn't matter if my head was covered in a black plastic bag and I was bouncing around in a space hopper: That's the villain of Chris Nolan's 'Batman!'

Minimalism is about creating space to live simply and meaningfully; it's about living intentionally.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

My family is my number one priority.

If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.

I'm not really a fashion person.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer.

I was always a big reader, mostly because my parents were.

All fame is is having people you dont know coming up to you and saying Hello. Im always polite and people are always nice but its weird.

My ideal summer day was reading on the porch.