I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm read more

I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a read more

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out read more

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

He that will not when he may,
When he will he shall have nay.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of read more

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability

I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability