Jim

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field

We are the people our parents warned us about.

If the Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me

If we couldn't laugh, we would all go insane.

The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.

What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.

When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell on the amount of love and treasure and patience parents poured into bodies no longer suitable for open caskets

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.

The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Death is as casual-and often as unexpected-as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.

It's amazing what one can do when one doesn't know what one can't do.

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.

Rowing is a sport for dreamers. As long as you put in the work, you can own the dream. When the work stops, the dream dissapears.

It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.'

The impossible is often the untried.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)

The road to success is always under construction.

Objects as they exist in time the clean eye and camera give us. Not falsified by seeing.

The only thing Earl Weaver knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.

The web eliminates all hiding places.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness--great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

Words do two major things They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized--never knowing.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself First, what could I do Second, what could I read And third, who could I ask

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

The book you don't read cant help.

Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day...

Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him.

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single.

Before all else, each of us must take a fundamental risk -- to be true to ourselves.

You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered you conquer yourself--your hopes, your fears.

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

I hate music, especially when it's played.

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.