Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

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

One time I saw a tiny Joshua tree sapling growing not too far from the old tree. I wanted to dig it up and replant it near our house. I told Mom that I would protect it from the wind and water it every day so that it could grow nice and tall and straight. Mom frowned at me. "You'd be destroying what makes it special," she said. "It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

You didn't need a college degree to become one of the people who knew what was really going on. If you paid attention, you could pick things up on your own.

No child is born a delinquent. They only became that way if nobody loved them when they were kids. Unloved children grow up to be serial murderers or alcoholics.

You can't cling to the side your whole life, that one lesson every parent needs to teach a child is "If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim

What doesn't kill you will make you stronger

You can't prepare for everything life's going to throw at you. And you can't avoid danger. It's there. The world is a dangerous place, and if you sit around wringing your hands about it, you'll out on all the adventure.

Life there was hard and it made people hard.