Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.

Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

And even though I did not reach the National Football League, I sometimes think I got more from pursuing that dream, and not accomplishing it, than I did from many of the ones I did accomplish.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.