You can't hit what you can't see.

Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.

I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.

You can't hit what you can't see.

Even now Ill see her looking at him her eyes milky yet full of longing and all he ever gives her is a gentle absent nod. Perhaps this is the nature of true deprivation a lifetime of love tenderly spurned.

There will never be a photograph of the Grand Canyon that can adequately describe its depth breadth and true beauty.

I do wish I'd had a better career. Who wouldn't?

If there's anything I can't stand, it's the cliche of the female handler who's always talking through the radio with your player, telling you where to go and what to do with a sexy voice. It's such a horrible, horrible cliche. You just get so tired of it. It's like, is this all she's ever going to be?

I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'

I get up really early, and I go to bed really late. Sometimes I get tired, but it's not important. I have an exciting existence, and there's so much to do.

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

The best thing that I bring in my live show is that it's not scripted. It's more of a conversation with my audience. And that's what people like about the show - it's very real. There are mistakes and laughter.

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

I am excited to join Combate Americas on NBC UNIVERSO, and look forward to building this incredible MMA sports brand and supporting the extremely talented athletes on its growing roster.

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may.

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

The right word may be effective but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes.

'The Magus,' usually described as a book for the young, is about learning that the world is a mysterious and limitless place, beyond our control, and all the more exciting - and daunting - because of it.

People will walk in and walk out of your life but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.

The game ain't over 'til it's over.