Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.
We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
My grandmother wanted me to get a good education, so she kept me as far away from schools as possible.
It's a dangerous fire begins in the bed-straw.
The rain is giving much needed relief to California's crops. By that I mean 'marijuana. '
For some reason in Spring Training, everything just clicked. You don't try to do anything in Spring Training but get ready, but things fell into place.