Life there was hard and it made people hard.

You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

If you had weak eyes, they needed exercise to get strong. Glasses were like crutches. They prevented people with feeble eyes from seeing the world on their own.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

Fussing over children who cry only encourages them. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.

I'm very flexible. I've got flexibility in any weight class. If you guys out there want to fight me man, I will fight you guys.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

I'm convinced England's overflowing with eccentric people, places, happenings. Indeed, you might say eccentricity's normal in England.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.

‎Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that's the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.

If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.

To what will love not stoop!