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There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.
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Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.
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I know never to take a wine for granted. Drawing a cork is like attendance at a concert or at a play that one knows well, when there is all the uncertainty of no two performances ever being quite the same. That is why the French say, 'There are no good wines, only good bottles.'
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Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today
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Wars are to be undertaken in order that it may be possible to live in peace without molestation.
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I hope to be known as a chameleon actress, as someone who can play any part out there, and someone who can transform herself into any kind of character there is.
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Confidence is a belief in myself and my ability. I built my confidence through hard training. I believed there was no one out there working any harder than me.
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The fact of the matter is, when I'm on tour, I'm juggling so hard to keep all the balls in the air that I don't often get to really enjoy what I'm out there doing.
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Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
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Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.
