The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.
I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down. '
It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.
The more highly we think of ourselves-our abilities and talents-the less God can use us.
Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.
Remember, imperialism is always presented as humanitarian: the white man's burden, the cross going round the world, the poor benighted natives, the sun never sets. . . So you have to be very careful about humanitarianism.
Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.