Sometimes you need a little crisis to get your adrenaline flowing and help you realize your potential.

Confidence doesn't come from thinking you're perfect or flawless. That's arrogance. Confidence comes from appreciating the beauty of your texture.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

But no matter how much planning you do, one tiny miscalculation, one moment of distraction, can end it all in an instant.

Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Mom also hinted a couple of times that it was good I was going to college, since with one failed marriage behind me, I 'd have trouble landing a good husband and would need something to fall back on. "A package that's been opened once doesn't have the same appeal".

I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.