Only those who have tasted the bitterest of the bitter can become people who stand out among others. -Guanchang Xianxing Ji

This was not uncommon in government-run operations, where a request that someone do their job often induced a catatonic state that might last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour.

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

There should ne’er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family.

Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt.

Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once?

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

I don't know how I got involved in 'Celebrity Wife Swap.' It came from my agent Hugh. He got the opportunity for me.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

Everybody is somebody's else's weirdo

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.

Nobody saw it, he (Rogers Hornsby) hit it and it disappeared.