You're in a horse race but you're thinking like a sheep. Sheep don't win horse races.

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.

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.

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

I don't want to let my life as a woman pass me by. There's a time to work, there's a time to be young and crazy, and there should be a time to enjoy motherhood. I'm actually looking forward to that.

An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.

It's impossible to get to the end if you quit in the middle.

Well, I have a band, Sadie and the Hotheads, and we have an album that is already out that is available on our website.

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

I would have to take some kind of revenge if my girlfriend had been aggressed, my mother had been aggressed, or my kids had been aggressed. I think I would go for personal revenge.

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish.

Trying to ground everything in reality was the most important thing to me.

He who makes no mistakes makes no progress.