You shouldn't be playing the game if you don't think that the win will happen.

My favorite pitch to hit is the hanging curveball. Usually if you just put your swing on it and it's hanging up there, there's a good chance it's going to go pretty far.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

I know the best moments can never be captured on film, even as I spend nearly half my life trying to do just that.

Eating a meal with full awareness can be a powerful, enlightening, and healing experience.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

There is something beyond power. The totality of one's being. Some call it nirvana. We have a higher destiny. Before you can scratch the surface, you have to bring your life into order.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

A trick I've learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.