During times of disaster sorrow brings people together in a spirit of friendship, and influences man to recognize the blessings of becoming his brother's keeper.

Strength, both physical and spiritual, is the product of struggle!

Meet struggle and master it, says nature, and you shall have strength and wisdom sufficient for all your needs.

Memory is the 'filling cabinet' of the brain wherein is stored all thought impulses, all conscious experiences, and all sensations which reach the brain through the five physical senses.

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

The Creator never singles out an individual for an important service to mankind without first testing him, through struggle, in proportion to the nature of the service he is to render.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

Why should we live halfway up the hill and swathed in the mists, when we might have an unclouded sky and a radiant sun over our heads if we would climb higher and walk in the light of His face?

I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon always makes it better.' I try to use bacon and pork products whenever it can.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

I don't know how to play the guitar, so having to be on stage in front of people doing something you don't really know how to do, it's terrifying.

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.