My dream was to play Major League baseball. I've lived that dream.

I enjoy coming to the ballpark every day. I don't go to work. I come here to play.

I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind.

I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?

I'm a baseball player. I'm also a guy who mows his lawn and plays with his dog.

I feel good. At this point, the only thing I'm trying to do is accumulate at-bats and get my work in, and so far that's what I'm doing.

I hope I haven't reached a pinnacle...I hope there's something more for me in baseball and in life.

Defense is a lot more natural to me than offense.

I hope I haven't maxed out, because I'm not satisfied. I hope I can be a better ball player, and I hope I'm on my way.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.

The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists

To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth

Think only of beautiful splendid.

...somewhere, on some subterranean level, her darkness and his may have connected.

Knowledge is justice

The Queen sniffed. "I rather miss your Jace," she said. "Of all of you, he was the prettiest and the best-mannered.

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!