Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

I am lonesome so regular it's like a job I gotta report to every day.

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

Where did we get the idea of insultin' folks by pointin' out their age? ... It seems that we think youth is some special accomplishment brought about by the individual himself!

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.

Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.

writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.