I'd rather be lucky than good.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.

I'm the guy that made Joe DiMaggio famous.

If you don't throw it, they can't hit it.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

The secret of my success was clean living and a fast outfield.

I'd rather be lucky than good.

I love to be in front of big galleries.

A balanced diet may be the best medicine. I was eating too much good eats. But people consider that part of your job, you know? Eat. And I do!

I hope to be remembered as someone who promoted positive change in Mexican business and society - even if this is not currently understood.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

Well done and congratulations The fruit of your labor is sweet and I must say you deserve it.

People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?

The only person who had any control was Jonathan Harris. His character was so flamboyant that he was able to make things happen. My character was fairly one-dimensional, so I had my relationship with Dr. Smith and with the family.

When I'm good I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better.

I love liquid eyeliner - it's just easier. It doesn't melt, fade, skip, or smudge. It's tougher to use because it's not as forgiving. The brush for my em michelle phan Scribble Calligraphy Liquid Liner was inspired by a calligraphy brush, so you can get a very thick or thin line, depending on how you flick it. I use it in Tattoo Black.

All of us, although we may have a label attached to us, that's not who we are.

When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.

The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who's kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me.

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

I'm always concerned about how our state looks.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

The more you give, the more you get - it's a cliche, but it's really true.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.