No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up.

Christianity is called a spiritual walk. It's not a run and it's not a jog. It's a walk you do from day to day and that makes you stable.

My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.

The game shouldn't be called baseball. It should be called adjustments.

I think you should have a mindset of getting to the playoffs, because once you get in the playoffs, it is kind of a crapshoot.

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

Essentially there are two actions in life: Performance and excuses. Make a decision as to which he will accept from yourself.

All the GOOD things doesn't comes in a single package.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

There's a kind of magical thinking about these kinds of things. Throw away those bad photos before the "magic" attaches to them, so the good ones stand out.

I’ve got four nipples. I think I must have been a twin, but the one other went away and left its nipples behind.

The girls go to the gang in order to get protection from victimization that's occurring in their lives. And also it's a place to be, because they're often rejected from and rejecting their families.

So I never had trouble getting work or working or doing - I always worked. I worked when I went to college. I worked after school.

Love doesn't care who your parents are.

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they are so upset about the death thing."

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.