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.

thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

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

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

Love is the light that you see by.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.