He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

He stopped everything behind the plate and hit everything in front of it.

Yogi seemed to be doing everything wrong, yet everything came out right.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

He was like, 'I want to get in the studio with you.' Who turns down Pharrell?

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.

In therapy I have learned the importance of keeping spiritual life and professional life balanced. I need to regain my balance.

Let me reassure that the Kingdom of Cambodia a country with independence, neutrality, peace, freedom, democracy and human rights as you all have seen, shall be existing with no end.

I have long hair because I'm American Indian. I'm an Oklahoma boy, and I'm very proud of my heritage.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

I don't want to see a movie twice. I don't want to do anything twice.

I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

When you write songs for your best friends and maybe two other people to hear, and then realize that a million other people are going to hear them, it can be a bit worrying. You get concerned about what you might reveal.

All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

In my early teens, I acquired a kind of representative status: went on behalf of the family to wakes and funerals and so on. And I would be counted on as an adult contributor when it came to farm work - the hay in the summertime, for example.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.

I'm not a film-school guy. I was a high-school dropout. I was on a nuclear submarine. I was an electrician. I was a house painter.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

When you're trying to motivate yourself, appreciate the fact that you're even thinking about making a change. And as you move forward, allow yourself to be good enough.

The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we hold of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

By the end of 2008, clearly, the al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated. They actually said that in many of their transmissions that we were able to pick up. And the Shia militia, largely those trained by the Iranians in Basra and also in Sadr City, had been defeated.