Making the ungrateful grateful is a tedious endeavor.

Making the ungrateful grateful will bring tears to your eyes, tears of blood bleeding from the heart.

Ungrateful people forget what they are not grateful for.

Don't ever lose hope because better days will come.

Choose your friends and mates, not by the money in their bank account, creed, ethnicity, or color; instead, choose character, actions, heart, and soul. When we bleed, we bleed the same color.

Strength of the mind is more powerful than strength of the muscles.

Whatever is going to happen will happen, whether we worry or not.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

My daughter and two sons are the flowers in my heart and garden.

Treat other people's home as you want them to respect yours because what goes around comes around.

I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends.

It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe.

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.

I didn't invent the word "selfie," but I took tons of Polaroids of myself.

I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.

Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

The Post Office is very careful nowadays. When they get a package marked "Fragile," they throw it underhand.

When I was younger, yes, there was a part of me - and I wrote about that bit in Among the White Moon Faces - that wanted to be a boy. I wanted to be accepted by my brothers and to be their peers.

The thing is, I'm a very practical filmmaker.

The most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.