"I do remember how it was to be poor. I do remember that in my early years, we had to grow and raise all of our food, even our animals. And I remember in my early life, we didn't even have electricity. So it was very, very hard times then."

"I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person."

"I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids."

"You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on."

"Wisdom principle 28 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 27."

"It is a profound truth that vision without execution is fantasy; execution without vision is chaos — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The richness of existence is found in simple harmonies, not superfluous splendors. Reflect upon this whenever doubt clouds your horizon — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see."