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.

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.

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.

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

A woman could be as beautiful as she felt herself to be.

Man can never go backwards, but his past can light the way for his journey.

When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world!

If you would stop, really stop, damning yourself, others, and unkind conditions, you would find it almost impossible to upset yourself emotionally - about anything. Yes, anything.

I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.

This is the copywriters task: not to create mass desire — but to channel and direct it.

If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

If you want to improve the Affordable Care Act, let's work together. But if you think you're simply going to throw millions off of health insurance, you got another guess coming.

I think Darth Maul has been on a vicious cycle, he's been on a merry go round. In some way he's begging for Obi-Wan Kenobi to take him off that ride.