Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.

Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain.

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.

Nothing can be comparable to good health

Time waits for no man.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

Tom Osborne, Lou Holtz, Bobby Bowden were in our living room. My mom didn't know who they were!

Customers have different need states and life experiences.

In the U.S., you have so many rules, everything's regulated and structured. When you make a mistake, you pay for it -a lot.

[Dalton] Trumbo himself was a terrible Communist.

I was a musician first before anything.

I got tested for AIDS. I know Barack got tested for AIDS. There's no shame in being tested for AIDS.

Part of the NAFTA legislation required studies of labor practices, and there was quite a good study that came out by a labor historian on the use of NAFTA to undermine and destroy unions.

If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

You can't do science in a novel, but you can do philosophy. Or, if you're really lucky, you can manage to pose a question in such a way that other people will take it on.