I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind.

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

Coming together is a beginning keeping together is progress working together is success.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

It is not an easy job to govern China, I am aware of that.

Baseball is simply my platform to elevate Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

Make notes—I’ve lost more material than I’ve ever written. Contrary to popular opinion, it’s not still up there in one’s brain. It’s in outer space and it ain’t coming back.

A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

I had become an atheist at the age of thirteen, when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan.

The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat., Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.]

You can't really make the decision for the coaches. I don't know what's going to happen. If I knew, then I would tell you, but I don't.