Cheap things are real. Cheap things are accessible. Cheap things are made for us because we don’t have any money, and even though we’d like to think we’ll have it someday, we know we don’t now.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time.

Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

What counts in the end is what the government does.

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame.

The one thing that I always got positive reinforcement for from teachers, who really changed my life, was the written word.

I must have made a good impression because a club official to us into his office and asked me if I would sign on for a year with a view to becoming a professional.

I mean, one shot you treat like you have forty little matches instead of one forty shot match. It makes all the difference in the world. It's easier to just forget about a not so good shot.

Who are we waiting for? We look up to the sky, waiting for the angel to come down and fix all of our problems. YOU are the angel that can fix your problems.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.