September is pantyhose month. No nonsense.

When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown

Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

I think the most horrible name for a crime has to be manslaughter. ... "I slaughtered a man! Just like a pig! Put him on a spit and put an apple in his mouth!"

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.

Time does not die; only people.

The farms you live in will be yours for free. When mineworkers strike, it will be to complain that we are giving them too much money.

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.

I've been doing som jogging at home recently and every time I try the distance I end up beating his time with like three or four seconds.

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.