I've been a Yankees fan since I was six.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that?

Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. Kindness that catches us by surprise brings out the best in our natures.

Cuba wants to get rid of a dictator, and baseball needs a dictator.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

It's not clear in the U.S. at the moment, either. We're going through another election.

The cheapest gift I have to give is kindness, and it is the best.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

When I say be skeptical of everything I mean it. Just because someone was elected to do a job doesn't mean that person has any idea of what they're doing.

I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts.

When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

With patient endurance, the best of life enfolds.

I don't consider those competitions fair where judges get to decide the winner, because selected judges quite often are not worthy or qualified enough to make the right decision.

Teachers do the noble work of educating our children. And we can't thank them enough for the hard work they put in every day to ensure a bright future for all of us.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it.

Can you control your anger, lust, frustrations, and jealousies? Those are the only people worthy of the higher teachings. By worthy, I mean that they are the only ones capable of it.

But I really would love to give her a very special gift. I was hoping if I did, she might give me a kiss in return, instead of the brotherly hugs I always get instead.

Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.

Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.