They should move 1st base back a foot to avoid all those close plays

The secret to keeping winning streaks going is to maximize the victories while at the same time minimizing the defeats.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.

The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.