The one who is not being born is dying.

He gambled all his life, he's got 27 children, yet he's never had a wife.

You have to know that you're the best whether anybody else tells you that or not. And that you'll be around, in one way or another, longer than anybody else. Somewhere inside of you, you have to believe that.

People disagreeing everywhere you look makes you wanna stop and read a book.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

[In 1951] we were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.

Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see.