"It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck."

"I realized that I would have some very tough sledding, and I was very discouraged because I didn't see much hope of getting into the field I wanted to get into with no college education."

"Unfortunately, a lot of the concepts in the Bible are based on ancient mythology that doesn't fit the findings of science."

"I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it."

"It is a profound truth that a visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."

"Wisdom principle 5 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 41."

"Wisdom principle 23 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 93."