To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

It don't make no difference where I go or what happens, so long as I can play the full nine.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Now the advantage is all with the hitters.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

I always tried to hit the ball back through the box because that is the largest unprotected area.

To be a good hitter you've got to do one thing - get a good ball to hit.

Any ballplayer that don't sign autographs for little kids ain't an American. He's a communist.

I've never been a yes man.

The question we ask is - if there is life on other planets, should we expect it to be based on the same molecules, i.e. be universal - or should we expect it to depend on the local conditions, i.e. on the planet's geochemistry. So to find out, we try experiments on biomolecules, starting with such geochemistry conditions.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism not a return to the hedonism of youth.

Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island.

Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

Bringing accountability to Washington has been an important part of my time in office and an important part of my campaign.

I believe every one of us possesses a fundamental right to tell our own story.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

The purpose of education is to create a purpose for life. Go for it with the utmost sincerity.

When I'm doing something I love, I can lose sleep. I can go and go and go and go. My work ethic is pretty intense. But when it comes to doing something that I don't love every day, I'm not very good at it. That's called work, and I don't like work that much.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.

Clarity and peace of mind are powerful tools. Achieving either and both is only possible when we allow ourselves to see life in all its variance.

You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

The basic rhymes in English are masculine, which is to say that the last syllable of the line is stressed: 'lane' rhymes with 'pain,' but it also rhymes with 'urbane' since the last syllable of 'urbane' is stressed. 'Lane' does not rhyme with 'methane.'

I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

I will bring you a whole person and you will bring me a whole person and we will have twice as much of love and everything.

I really don't think I could get starstruck with anybody. Famous final words, but I just don't think I could.

Being in the country is like being in a dream one doesnt quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all that strange human creature that is me one among all.

Naturally, it was easier for me to envision becoming a novelist than it is for most people. I had two great in-house teachers; I had parents who considered a career in the arts a real possibility rather than a dreamy arrow shot into the sky.

When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. TheLesson: If you can't accept yourself, then certainly no one else will.