Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

If I'm honest with you, you might not like me for a day or two. But if I lie to you, you're going to hate me forever.

Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.

Don't ever let the pressure exceed the pleasure.

Don't let the pressure of the moment outweigh the pleasure.

I like to have fun. I have never done anything well in my entire life that I didn't enjoy.

I don't say anything. One of the reporters asked me in the scrum in there, and I said, no, I didn't say anything to anybody. I can only hurt them right now. I cannot help them.

If I'm a pitcher, my only point would be that if I'm a relief pitcher, I think I like the idea of warming up on the field.

Sometimes you have to give credit to the other guy pitching.

When you start worrying about who you're going to play, it could bite you. Because it really shouldn't matter.

You have to be able to play through the tough moments by doing something offensively, and we haven't been able to do that.

Imagine a delicious glass of summer iced tea.Take a long cool sip. Listen to the ice crackle and clink.Is the glass part full or part empty?Take another sip.And now?

It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

Israel deserves America's friendship in reality - not just in rhetoric.

The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

He wasn't someone fighting for racial equality. He was the leader of a violent, Communist revolution that has nearly succeeded in all of its grisly horror.

In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.

Through talk, we tamed kings, restrained tyrants, averted revolution