What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

The object of Sufi preparatory study, however, being to illustrate, expose and out-manoeuvre superficial ambition.

It is not commercial success but originality and proof of autonomy which are admired.

Keep quiet and the enemy will reveal himself.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game.

Anything that doesn't lead us to that - to better know and serve God - is a waste of time.

China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China.

A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power.

I have relentlessly beat the drum for Google's 'two-step' authentication systems for Gmail and other services, which radically reduce the likelihood that your account can be hacked from afar.

A strenuous soul hates cheap success.