Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.
Questioning is the piety of thought.
Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.
A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.
If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to.
Having a partner who has nothing to do with Hollywood helps keep things in perspective.
She had the kind of looks that had probably been quite pretty in high school, but were now worn down by years of smoking cigarettes, raising children, and the disappointment of being married to an asshole.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.