This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life n' good health, n' passin' six weeks tests...these are real valuable to somebody.

Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.