God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.

I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

I never did think I had brain damage.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

You can't do nothing but try if you still got it in your heart.

I don't want the kids to go through want I went through.

It ain't what you do it's how you do it.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Acknowledging the important role of the emotions in health and illness, medicine must reexamine its concepts of disease causation.

When you lose a friend or a lover, those who remain in your life gain (more of your attention).

You can't stop negative thoughts from coming in, but you can make sure they leave as quickly as they enter.

To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

Curiosity killed the cat.

So far the earth has warmed about a degree Fahrenheit globally averaged. That doesn't seem like an enormous amount but it's unlike what we would have expected twenty years ago.

The game is never lost till won.

In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.