The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.

It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.

A million years went by quick.

But there was also a little of that thing they say about New Englanders: Being from here doesn't prevent me from doing anything, it just prevents me from enjoying it.

By covetousness, people will exploit you with deceptive words

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

I was born in 1962, and the room next to me was 1963.

It is the duty of man to raise up man.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

Ideas are worthless if you can’t make them happen.

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

I am a storyteller, and I grew up with a father who told big-fish stories, so storytelling is very much a part of me. It was a part of my family.

If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.