I can't think of a recent baseball song except John Fogerty's Centerfield. It's very difficult to write a baseball song that pleases fans and non-fans alike.

You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.

You see in all my life I've never found what I couldn't resist, what I couldn't turn down. I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

A mistake isn't a mistake if you learn a lesson from it.

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

I know there's nothing that I wouldn't do Go to the ends of the earth for you To make you feel my love

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

Don't let the world decide who you are. You decide who you are.

I wanted to do this properly, but I look at you and I forget...

all may not be well but, sometimes, things that seem so uncanny are what shield and protect us from the worst situations in life.

Leaving a good mark

For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth.

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi; Consider the Empire and Gandhi.