Jacks Are Home Runs. So Are Dongs,

A Banking System Is An Act Of Faith: It Survives Only For As Long As People Believe It Will.

Every Form Of Strength Is Also A Form Of Weakness.

The Sheer Quantity Of Brain Power That Hurled Itself Voluntarily And Quixotically Into The Search For New Baseball Knowledge Was Either Exhilarating Or Depressing, Depending On How You Felt About Baseball. The Same Intellectual Resources Might Have Cured The Common Cold, Or Put A Man On Pluto.

People Don't Like Uncertainty, And Their Minds Are Tools For Making Sense Of The World, Even When The World Is Senseless.

Commitment, By Its Nature, Frees Us From Ourselves And, While It Stands Us In Opposition To Some, It Joins Us With Others Similarly Committed. Commitment Moves Us From The Mirror Trap Of The Self Absorbed With The Self To The Freedom Of A Community Of Shared Values.