Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.
Yale’s greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
To take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.
As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves.
You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.
To succeed in baseball, as in life, you must make adjustments.
Why should I stretch? Does a cheetah stretch before it chases its prey?
I remember when I was a kid being called names, including the ‘n’ word. The first time that happened, it really bothered me. But most of the people I dealt with were all white. Most of my close friends were white.
I knew unless I got stopped I was going to go all the way. I don’t know if I can run any faster. I just ran as fast as I could.
Its a game, and that’s how I am going to treat it.
If I’m compared to Babe Ruth or Willie Mays, that’s great. But I’m just going to go out there and be myself.
My name is not ‘The Best Player in Baseball.’ My name is George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.
Talk to people. Go another way. Don’t kill yourself. It ain’t worth it and I’m a great example. No matter how bad it seems at the time, work your way through it. Who knows how your life is going to turn out?
The other guys, all they have to do is use their big butts and big python arms to hit homers. Me, I’m the little guy in the group. People always root for the little guy.
We three kings of Orient are. Bearing gifts we traverse afar. Field and fountain, moor and mountain. Following yonder star.
What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?
An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to ‘riots, terrorism – and death.’
Women’s right-to-know laws are supported by the overwhelming majority, not just of men, but of women, and 70% of the American people favor bans on abortion after the 20th week late term abortions.
Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.
Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.