Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

To love is to admire with the heart to admire is to love with the mind.

I go way beyond just the wood and stone but to the process of growth and farming and the tensions between the two.

I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.

I want to appear ordinary, but I have it understood that I am not.

Partisanship may be King in Washington - but the rest of us don't have to pay tribute.

Have faith in yourself.

Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.