The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned.

If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

This is a serious, serious condition that is also called postpartum psychosis. And that's where, literally, you get so bad that you end up either hurting the baby or killing yourself.

You marry at the level of your self-esteem, make sure you have self worth.

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

Being of service to others is what brings true happiness.

I don't claim to know everything. I claim to be a seeker of knowledge.

Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

To a man with only a hammer, a screw is a defective nail.

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished.

Everyone would like to play in their hometown, but right now I like Cincinnati, I like the way it's going. I'm happy.

Success is actually a short race-a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.

"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

Curiosity about the world and questioning of the status quo to open minds to alternative visions of the future are essential leadership skills. And they can be learned.

It's time to lie down and be counted.