Largely, as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here.

Success takes the courage to know who you really are and be comfortable with that.

Time changes every man. Unusual circumstances change them in unusual ways

I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.

It's not that I dislike many people. It's just that I don't like many people.

How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?

I feel responsibility for a lot of things that I manage to touch.

You'll never see me working five days a week again.

I feel young, but my body doesn't agree.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

That's a demon for you. Wants me dead but wants to be sure that he is the one who does me in.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

The words in this book are all phooey. When you say them, your lips will make slips and back flips and your tongue may end up in Saint Looey!

There's no job too immense, when you got confidence.

Calculus destroys self-esteem on contact.

Hard work pays off if you're patient enough to see it through.

All poetry is putting the infinite within the finite.

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.