“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

You have to be odd to be number one.

You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read.

So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!

People are weird. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. And remember that life’s A Great Balancing Act.

If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn’t show up.

You really can’t teach reading as a science. Love gets mixed up in it.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a diversified bet of uncorrelated bets.

It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.

Wives don’t need a good provider, they need a Godly man who will help them trust in The Provider – God!!

I’m going to give away a lot more than half my money. I’d be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I’m giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

The most inspirational man I knew only reached his potential by helping a child reach his.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!