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Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.
I still have a book club with my friends from when I was 5. That's the privilege of growing up in a place where people want to remain. It's a huge gift.
Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
The women who file for bankruptcy played by all the rules, but they are still in economic freefall.
My mother had a marvelous talent for mishandling money - mine.
I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.
Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
Rap music is really good when you're traumatized.
The truth has always been a more complex commodity than the market can easily package and sell.
A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
I love theater, and I've always been a huge movie buff.
I'm a planner, an organizer. I write things down because you can visually check them off and see progress. Writing things down is a lost art. I've got sticky notes all over my apartment.
The Lord works through deeply flawed people, since He made so few of the other kind.
Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?
Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.
In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.
When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy. There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
It's a combination of science, maintenance, and general housekeeping. And then, occasionally, robotics activities or a spacewalk you might get to do.
The history taught in our schools is scandalous. We grew up believing that Columbus actually discovered America. We still celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus was after one thing only - gold.
One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either.
