If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

Once you teach me something, it's mine to use.

We can't live our lives according to what might have been. We have to live by what is.

If God is so powerful, can he create a rock which he cannot lift?

I will have to admit, though, that I will never look at an apple in quite the same way.

Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.