Year Quotes

In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.

The [China] government has improved in the last years. Of course, the structure is still the same; there’s still a one-party system and strong censorship.

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.

I am equal to a baby and to a hundred-year-old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It’s that universal. Except that it’s not.

For years the league has thought I’ve been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

I think within a year or so, perhaps, if 9/11 had not happened, in Afghanistan would have been a very broad-based general uprising against the Taliban.

When you’re on TV, you come into people’s homes. In theater and film, they go to you – to the temple of the cinema or theater. And it’s very different.

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn’t pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.

I predicted in 1950 that in five years, manufacturers the world over would be screaming for protection. It took only four years.