Again with the us. My heart beat a little faster. How many times had I dreamed of being one of the chosen few? To be truly accepted by the in crowd instead of sitting on the sidelines of my own life?

I guess by taking lessons early on, and really trying to play all the rudimentary stuff, and try to have it sound as good as my teacher. It took a lot of practice, which I enjoyed, and still do.

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

With depression, you can go in and out of it and not really know whether it's still there or not. Sometimes I'd find myself bursting into tears for no reason.

Always remember that striving and struggle precede success even in the dictionary.

There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you.

Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where we are on the globe.

As a ballplayer, you just want to feel respected. I like the way Washington presented the team to me and I feel good about what was being said.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.