It’s difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.

In baseball, as in life, it’s not about how hard you hit, but how well you bounce back.

Baseball is a reminder that even in a fast-paced world, there’s value in taking things slow.

The most valuable players are not always the ones with the highest stats but those who inspire others

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I’m actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

But, of course, it isn’t really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there… and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.

You never can tell with bees.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others

One must give value to their existence by behaving as if ones very existence were a work of art.

You can be anything you want to be, just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be

What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred

Equally valuable lessons are learned in defeat and victory.

Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we’ve done, I think it’s just sort of natural that each one hasn’t necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.

Don’t be afraid to reach for the stars

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria…

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

I don’t want my past to become anyone else’s future.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Tell me why, why can’t we try and start again? This can’t be how our story ends

Don’t be confused by my smile ‘Cause I ain’t ever been more for real

I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I’m an icon. The world decides all of that

When you’re surrounded by flowers, you breath better.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

I don’t believe in talent. Talent doesn’t exist.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

The funniest people are the saddest ones

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That’s the only way you can get elected.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‘I’ people and ‘we’ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‘we’ person.

If I convert, it’s because it’s better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist. And there is no decent or charted way of making a living at it. It is something you are, and not something you do

The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law

To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase ‘terrible beauty.’ Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it’s a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else’s body.

Even when the tide was against us, we made it through.

You can live by your own rules

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Every plan I have is the best plan in the room.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen.

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

Imagination means nothing without doing.

Train up a child in the way he should go – but be sure you go that way yourself.

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn’t complicated. ‘I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.’ We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

You are in every line I have ever read.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

You young lieutenants have to realize that your platoon is like a piece of spaghetti. You can’t push it. You’ve got to get out in front and pull it.