"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."

“One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.”

“Courage, like fear, is a habit. The more you do it, the more you do it, and this habit-of stepping up, of taking action-more than anything else, will move you in a different direction.”

“Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.”

“I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.”

Source : "Talking hitting with Stan Musial and Tony Gwynn". Sporting News Magazine Interview, www.sportingnews.com. July 28, 1997.

“To have a horror of the bourgeois is bourgeois.”

“That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.”

Source : "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

“We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.”

Source : "A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day" by George Saintsbury, the first US edition; New York: Dodd, Meads, (Vol. 1, pp. 4-5), (1900-04).

“I'd enjoy it if a guy grabbed my ass. I guess it all depends on how he grabbed it, too.”