Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.
Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years.
With but few exceptions, it is always the underdog who wins through sheer willpower.
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor
How can a guy climb trees, say Me Tarzan, You Jane, and make a million?
The main thing is not to let go of the vine.
The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.
The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family from the most Norman Rockwell version to Norman Bates. Without family, we have very little - it is the most basic social structure. So yes I suppose I wanted to write a hopeful book about the evolution of the family.
The parts of the universe. . . all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.
The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply. It's still not clear you can get it from blood transfusions.