They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love something to do and something to hope for.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

Knowledge is vast like ocean. It is inexhaustible quest!

The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The student-athlete should control everything that happens. From figuring out what kind of a degree they want to what type of a program they want to play for, they should control it all.

Jesus never told His friends to play it safe.

My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

I don't believe in yesterday.

It's not worth moving heaven and earth, spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person.

The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others, the rich by their own.