You will lead, you will strike up the march of the future, boys will swear by your name, and thanks to your madness they will no longer need to be mad

We could not strike back, for we were starving; and it is the way of the world that when one man feeds another he is that man’s master.

We’re wanted men, we’ll strike again, but first let’s have a beer.

One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that they would themselves spontaneously rise up and strike off the manacles. But, no, they appear to glory in their chains

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

That’s probably the best perspective in the park. My favorite one was the strike three pitch he threw Giambi that kind of went straight, cut in and then ran back on the plate for a strike.

One of the hardest things in life to accept is a called third strike.

I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought “ha, if I was a God-botherer, I’d be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this?” and I thought at least I’m free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.

Peace will come when it becomes irrelevant to strike out at people. When you see that it’s striking out against your own genome.

An ugly woman would ruin me, the disease would be sure to strike in and kill me at the sight of her. I think a pretty physician, with engaging manners, would coax a fellow to live through almost anything.

Strike while the iron is hot.