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The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.
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If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.
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Love and a sense of calmness are the only things you need to bring to the experience of death.
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We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.
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It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!
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Race is still the No. 1 determinant in every election.
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If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another
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When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.
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Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there is something. It's almost like magic.
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Everything is practice.
