I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.
The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn't asked for and weren't expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.
An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.
No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.
So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us.