...If I don't have twenty or thirty books right here, waiting to be read, I start jonesing. That's my compulsion.

There's no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk.

Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.

Another distraction that deviates people from their God given purpose and calling is the distraction of job and formal education.

I think I can say with confidence that it’s a lot funnier if you haven’t actually been attacked by a shark.

The greatest truths are the simplest and so are the greatest men.

Without optimism & self-belief among teachers, classrooms become wastelands of boredom & routine and schools deserts of lost opportunity.

I'm an avid hockey fan and I've been playing for about 17 years, and somebody recently told me that the first organized hockey teams in Canada were all black. Telling those stories would be cool.

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.

Of all the issues we are concerned with at present, the most basic issue, in my estimation, is that of human-earth relations.

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart.

Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.