Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

It takes a small town to keep you humble.

Mrs. Schneiderman's theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.