Baseball is the greatest of American games. Some say football, but it is my firm belief, and it shall always be, that baseball has no superior.

There cannot be overproduction of anything which men and women want. And their wants are unlimited, except by the size of their stomachs.

Negative results are just what I want. They’re just as valuable to me as positive results. I can never find the thing that does the job best until I find the ones that don’t.

When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. He came out all right.

The entity that gives life and motion to the human body is finer still and lies infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When this entity deserts the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder - deserted, motionless, dead.

Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools.

Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years.