"Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots,” and"

"Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind,"

"To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."

"Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more."

"Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that."

"Marinate your mind"

"Patience which I assure you requires more force of character than does action."

"The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and everything we think is the ultimate, the best."

"It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities." - Victor Hugo"

"He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss)."

"Make business first, pleasure afterward, and that guarded. All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others. He made a point of treating"

"The clock would be simple if you destroyed all the wheels . . . but it would not tell the time of day.” On"

"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.” Their"

"In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey"

"A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses."

"Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave."

"Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn,"

"Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors."

"We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it."

"We believed in a good God, a bad Devil, and a hot Hell, and more than anything else we believed that same God did not intend man should ever fly."

"Let no girl, no gun, no cards, no flutes, no violins, no dress, no tobacco, no laziness decoy you from your books."

"You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can."

"Nobody is going to dictate our freedom."

"I'm very mechanical, so if I have one thing that's going in the wrong direction when I'm hitting, it's hard for me to get a hit."

"You can never fall in love with a team."

"You can't say that being a fan is more serious, because players are trying to do better in order to get paid better."

"If I can't hit at a high level, I won't play, and I know there comes a point where my body won't be able to do that."

"What I don't want to do is just play for the sake of playing."

"The fans know that I don't give at-bats away."

"People, man, they love hurting people. It's not even fair."

"Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons."

"I stress a lot, sometimes."

"My parents always told me to stay away from trouble. When I moved away from them at a young age, I was fine because they taught me how to do everything right."

"My whole career, my swing has always been the most important thing to me. Even when I'm taking a shower, I work on my swing."

"I never thought that buying supplements and vitamins, it was going to hurt anybody's feelings."

"I just come do what I've got to do, play my game. And I don't worry if anybody likes it."

"I know in my situation, my mind works more than everything else. I've been like that my whole career."

"My teammates are the best."

"What happened to me should teach everybody that you should never give up on anybody."

"I'm an easy person to get along with. Even when I struggle, I have the same attitude."

"Negativity doesn't help me."

"I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it."

"I guess the rules aren't for everyone."

"A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you."

"Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times."

"I try to be as quiet as I can at the plate, but still aggressive."

"I try to do things the right way."

"I'm a guy that people look at me not only as a guy that hit the ball."

"Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal."

"Trust me, I play the game for the fans, my family and myself."