Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

His smile was small and immediate, crooked, like I’d put his whole world off its axis, but he was somehow okay with that.

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

I first noticed how the sound of water is like the talk of human voices, and would sometimes wake in the night and listen, thinking that a crowd of people were coming through the woods.

The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture.

"In Africa," S. B. once remarked, "if you do well, people close to you will hate you."

The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.