Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Treat the past as a school.

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

Words in the mind are like colors on the palette of the artist. The more colors we have access to, the easier it is to create a captivating picture on the canvas, and the more practice we give to using those many colors appropriately and uniquely, the more likely we will be to create a masterpiece of self expression.

It is what you do about what happens that counts.

The wind blows on us all, but it's how you set your ssail that makes the difference.

You say, 'The country is messed up.' That's like cursing the soil and the seed and the sunshine and the rain, which is all you've got. Don't curse all you've got. When you get your own planet, you can rearrange this whole deal. This one you've got to take like it comes.