Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.

You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

All pitchers are liars or crybabies.

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

I thought maybe we mourned not only for the dead but also for the living. We felt their absence before we knew for sure they were gone.

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

May an elephant caress you with his toes

It's easier to get divorced than to engage in the soul-stretching personal growth that is inevitable in marriage

I think as Christians, we all have the same calling, and that calling is to love God with all our heart, mind, and soul and love others as ourselves and to glorify God in everything that we do.

Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience.

I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.