I didn't have things as a child, and I was determined to get them.
That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.
I'm real. I believe what I'm saying. If Motel 6 wasn't the type of operation they say it is - and I stay at them when I travel - I wouldn't do their commercials. That comes through on the radio, and that's what it's all about.
What is mine, even to my life, is hers I love; but the secret of my friend is not mine!
The poor, the unsuccessful, the unhappy, the unhealthy are the ones who use the word tomorrow the most.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.