Right now I feel that I've got my feet on the ground as far as my head is concerned.

Never try to snow a snowman.

Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.

How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?

People keep telling me I never lived up to my potential, that I wasted my talent. . . I just didn't have as much as people thought. I got more ink for doing less than any pitcher who ever lived.

When I lose, I drink, and when I win I celebrate.

I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.

Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can: If you don't read, your writing is going to suck.

Progress means advancement in the path of upliftment – in the path of enlightenment – in the path of humanitarian glory.

Coolness ebbs and flows.Whoever is cool today may not be cool today

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Trying to trade during a losing streak is emotionally devastating. Trying to play 'catch up' is lethal.

It's hard to tell what people will do with the word and how they'll be circulating it but I think the storytellers and the stories themselves will always be there.

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism.

You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

The language of science—and especially of a science of man—is, necessarily, anti-individualistic, and hence a threat to human freedom and dignity.