“To be in your child's happy memories tomorrow, you must be in his life today.”

“If you hate the people who hate you, you'll destroy yourself”

“Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.”

“I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. ”

“If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.”

“When life gives you squirrels, your bound to be a little nuts!”

“The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.”