"Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next day, next week, next year"

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days"

"The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life"

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day"

"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes"

"I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame"

"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk"

"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you"

"Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time"