Mental strength is really important because you either win or lose in your mind. And I’m not solely talking about sporting matches, boxing events – anything you do, you do it first with your mental strength. And you can actually train and develop it, and I am responsible for what I’m saying because I have experience with that.
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Fatherhood is not a matter of station or wealth. It is a matter of desire, diligence and determination to see one’s family exalted in the celestial kingdom. If that prize is lost, nothing else really matters.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize – and sometimes you have to cauterize – the ones who really are against change. They’re the kind of person who, if you tell them it’s raining outside, they’ll fight you tooth and nail.
In time I began to understand that it’s when you start writing that you really find out what you don’t know and need to know.
I’m a big admirer of Walter Willett’s work. I think he’s done some really important research. He and I agree on most things.
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they’re more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven’t the least idea of where poetry is going.
I grew up in a very religious family and it is the motivating force to every thing I do. I am fortunate to have had adults all around me who really lived their faith, in helping other people and doing the best you can do.
Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.