To be honest, I never thought I'd be famous for baseball. I want to play basketball, and I could also do both basketball and baseball - but I really want to play basketball.

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

He knew for certain that she belonged forever in his arms, just as he knew she didn’t realize it yet.

You're everything I hate about the rock world and yet everything I love...

We have denounced in all assemblies, in all places where we have had the opportunity to speak, the illegality of flights and the fact that there is a base against the will of the Cuban people.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

I never have kids in movies or in TV shows.

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

Education is great ... but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

Good health is not the absence of symptoms, it is the presence of peace.

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.