To be successful, one must take chances.

Oakland revolved around Forbes Field. Nothing in the city could match that atmosphere.

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

I've always been a slave to my heart.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball."

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball. And they tell you to hit it square.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

Helping someone is what life is all about.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Everything-less. The lack of everything. Synonym to nothing. I am everything-less without you.

What better time to try something new than when you have nothing to lose.

What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart?

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.

I'd never hurt another person.

The night glittered brilliantly then.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

American fiction is good. It would be nice if somebody read it.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

The best songs don't get recorded; the best recordings don't get released; and the best releases don't get played.