I don’t have a bank account because I don’t know my mother’s maiden name.

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.

We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else – I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.