But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

This is how Americans think. You believe that if something terrible happens to someone, they must have deserved it.

Friends, there is nothing like your own family to make you appreciate strangers!

The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.

There's always a part of your nation's history that you haven't been told that... has a powerful impact on how you yourself may behave and may believe.