Chuck Reid

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I’m just doing this for the money or I’m just going through the motions, I’ll quit.

Life on the road is murder. It’s as though life begins and ends with your horn in your mouth.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

In the end, you’re just a renter anyway. You only own these things for as long as you live. After that, who knows? If I live until I’m 80, I’ll have 30 more years of collecting. If the collection is big enough, I’ll build a museum. And if not, I’ll leave it to a museum.

There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.

Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent.

Every situation needs a hero. Step up and be that for your child.

The sense of injustice, more than the unjust condition itself, is what wears on men’s minds.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn’t ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Life is a marathon, it’s not a sprint.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.