Discussion in class which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what you are. If you don't experience either one of those you're being deprived of something.

My success and my misfortunes the bright and the dark days I have gone through everything has proved to me that in this world either physical or moral good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running either repeats or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength grace and wit reminders of order calm and continuity lakes of mental energy neither warm nor cold light nor dark.

They read their sports pages know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans pro or con over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

Growing up in Huntington Beach you were either a traditional sports athlete a skateboarder or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years did a little BMX racing as a kid and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.