Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when don't want them to.

Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.

Infectious smile has infected tears The laughter strikes with spears I am not dear and they are not sincere Feeling fear I must perform For when I stop the stage is gone

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

Lust-bred diseases rot thee.

The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should. I've got Greenspan's book.

We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction in his position, which asks no leave to be, of mine, or any man's good opinion.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.