People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...

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.

Your memories are you. There is, it seems, no other You.

What is the purpose of history? It seeds only hate. All the history books should be burnt, so that we are no longer the peoples of our lands, but merely peoples...

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

But their determination to banish fools foundered ultimately in the installation of absolute idiots.

I was the freak who moved into the nice neighborhood.

I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.

There is no skepticism without science and the scientific method. It's about how we know what we know.

If you want to know if racism is a problem in your country, you might not want to ask white people.

In love the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.