"If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living beings become your friends. The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts. Check your own mind to see whether or not this is true."

“The best of life is always ahead, always further along.”

“Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“People joked that Forster became more renowned with every book he did not write.”

“The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

Source : Speech in New Orleans, 19 October 1969, in 'Frankly Speaking' (1970) ch. 3

“Cyclists, I work with a number of cyclists. They are great athletes; they are great aerobic athletes. If you ask them to hit a baseball or golf ball, they can't do that.”

Source : "Eric Heiden 25: An exclusive interview". Interview with Charlie Snyder, snyderemarks.com. February 17, 2005.

“I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.”

“Your field of focus determines what you find in life.”

“Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (2015). “Winesburg, Ohio”, p.116, Sheba Blake Publishing