I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.

If the emotions are free the intellect will look after itself

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

We are not afraid of what we think we are afraid of . . . we are afraid of what we think.

People said experience is the best teacher. Until they found a fact that experience is the worst and most painful teacher.

Don't permit negative minds and things to distract you from your happiness. Your life doesn't deserve to miss any moment of it.

I have forged many things that I believe to be things of great beauty. Yet if God is not a part of them, they are entirely counterfeit and I have been robbed blind by the work of my own hands.

The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas

And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.

Demonstrate to the world there is "No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy" than a U.S. Marine.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

Somebody said that my work might be an interesting source of material.

Nowadays, it is fashionable for agents to be out. When you call them, they're always "out." It's in, you see, to be out. If they're in, they're out. So, they're always out. That way, they'll be in.

All day you wait for the pitch you like; then when the fielders are asleep, you step up and hit it.