Baseball is all I ever wanted. I could eat, sleep, and dream baseball.

I threw so hard I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.

For us (Muslims) death is an incident: for them (the Europeans), the end.

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

The Party, as such, stands for positive Christianity, but does not bind itself in the matter of creed to any particular confession.

At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

We need more than a new politics; what we need is a new worldview. We need a fundamentally different bottom line.

We see in these swift and skillful travelers a symbol of our life, which seeks to be a pilgrimage and a passage on this earth for the way of heaven.

Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion.

The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged.