I told [McCourt] the season is like a kaleidoscope. Every day it changes one degree and the picture is different.

I've learned to never expect or require performances that exceed the player's ability. If they just equal their ability, that's what you want.

The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

The more experienced you are, the better off you are.

Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

When making tough decisions it is ok to get it wrong as long as we are working to make it right.

She pictured a dandelion gone by, the white, almost airless pieces of her family scattered so far.

My mom was always really healthy and cautious about her diet, so I'm not a big sugar guy.

The more I simplify my life, the happier I feel.

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase.

Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.