Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

They say that life is just a blank chain, and precious moments are the beads we hang off it to make it beautiful.

They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting.

I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.

Let hopes and sorrows, fears and angers be, And think each day that dawns the last you'll see; For so the hour that greets you unforeseen Will bring with it enjoyment twice as keen.

I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

I am a self-proclaimed "fitness addict," so I am one of those people who actually really, really enjoys working out.

A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.