We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.

Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.

He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.

I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

Crying wouldn't help anything now.

Ask yourself this: If there was zero chance of failure, what would you do? Now, go do that.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Fight on land and sea All men want to be free If they don't never mind we'll abolish all mankind

It's too bad I'm not a flirt. When I'm on the sets, I'm too busy working on my scenes to look at the ladies.

I go out and salsa with friends, especially in the summertime. Now that's incredible cardio!

I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.