Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late.

It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.

Luck is the residue of design.

Baseball is a game of inches.

Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.