"As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy"

"Music is my religion"

"I feel happy to terrify kids"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule"

"There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you"

"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home"

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course"

"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future"