"In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there"

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action"

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

"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"

"Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences"

"Action conquers fear"

"The ancestor of every action is a thought"

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied"

"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"

"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk"