There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

They give you a round bat and they throw you a round ball and they tell you to hit it square.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

I love September, especially when we're in it.

The best artists know what to leave out.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.