The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
You really have to be some kind of a creep for a dog to reject you.
Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.
Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray.
I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.
You are. I'm just fatalistically cheerful. We all come into the story halfway through, we all catch up as best we can, and we're all gonna die before it ends.
Let me do my work each day, and if the darkened hours of despair overcome me, may I not forget the strength that comforted me in the desolation of other times.
Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.
It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.