I touched Roger's bat and held it to my heart. My bat will lie next to his. I'm damn proud of that.

Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.

The only reason I took steroids was for my health purposes. I did not take steroids to get any gain for any strength purposes.

If you want to maximize your total potential ... you have to know yourself first.

The mind is a powerful thing and most people don't use it properly.

I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.

I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.

The thing I sort of get tired of hearing is if I don't hit home runs or don't get hits, that the pressure of the media is getting to me. Absolutely not. Believe me, it's not getting to me.

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak.

A huge amount of success in life comes from learning as a child how to make good habits. It's good to help kids understand that when they do certain things habitually, they're reinforcing patterns.

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

I'm very little drawn to photographing people that are known or even subjects that are known. They fascinate me when I've barely heard of them.

A woman's honor rests on manly love.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.