In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to a high level, with the top guys in the game.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

St. Francis De Sales

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Cyril Connolly

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Thomas Carlyle

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Ambrose Bierce

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Daniel Craig

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

Mae West

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Samuel Johnson

Conform and be dull.

J. Frank Doble

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Jackie Kennedy

The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.

Nadia Comaneci

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Johann von Goethe