The true beauty of baseball is found in its traditions, from the seventh-inning stretch to the crack of the bat

In baseball, as in life, the true measure of a person is how they handle adversity

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration – courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.

I used to believe in forever, but forever’s too good to be true

Nothing transformed the politics, the economy and the table of Europe like the potato. The tuber from Peru.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit.

Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don’t harrass them, don’t deprive them of their happiness, don’t work against God’s intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you – alas, it is true of almost every one of us!

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

No,” said the priest, “you don’t need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary.” “Depressing view,” said K. “The lie made into the rule of the world.

It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.’ ‘A melancholy conclusion,’ said K. ‘It turns lying into a universal principle.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Don’t be afraid to ask for help or guidance. There is strength in vulnerability.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned

Communism doesn’t work because it is out of phase with human nature. Are we going to wake up one day to find this statement equally true when applied to the concept of Western democracy?

A true Zen saying: ‘Nothing is what I want.

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.

After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.

There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.

Some stories are true that never happened.

You’re everything I see in my dreams I wouldn’t say that to you if it wasn’t true

Treasure, that is what you are Honey, you’re my golden star You know you can make my wish come true

I think it’s important as an artist to never forget where you’re from

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.

True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know

The Master said, “A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.

Silence is a true friend who never betrays.

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance

What I said the other day, you looking like me, that ain’t true. You ain’t ugly like me, it’s just that we both have got scars.

If you consider film an art form, as some people do, then the Western would be a truly American art form, much as jazz is.

It’s not true that I’m not religious. I’m religious, in the sense that I believe that the universe is lawful, that there are discoverable truths, that there is such a thing as reality, and we’re not just assembling this potential reality, which is subjective, and saying that it’s true because we believe it. There are real facts.

To love thy neighbor as yourself is a true mark of generosity and kindness.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it’s just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true.

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly, we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is.

We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.