Do not take on a traditionally built person unless you are prepared for a heavyweight bout.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

I'm going to be doing exactly what I'm doing now - teaching people about animals.

Signals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator

our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

Losers spend time explaining why they lost. Losers spend their lives thinking about what they're going to do. They rarely enjoy doing what they're doing.

In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

Because nine years ago, I walked up to the most beautiful girl in the bar, and tonight she's still the only person I want to talk to.

Anyone who questions my commitment, doesn't know me.

If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the kids around me.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.