Positivity brings about a peace of mind which in turn relaxes your whole being.

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem

There is so much freedom in not having to choose.

Never treat somebody’s cleverness as his life’s smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Correct thinkers think that 'baseball trivia' is an oxymoron: nothing about baseball is trivial.

Surely we ought to show them (animals) great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

A writer is not different from a reader, in that the common ragbag of orthodoxies and assumptions is what a poet has to work with as well.

Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.