Mom always said people worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you, she said. It immunized your body and your soul, and that was why she ignored us kids when we cried. Fussing over children who cry only encouraged them, she told us. That's positive reinforcement for negative behavior.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

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

When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.

Interesting people always have a past.

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.

You'll never make a fortune working for the boss man.