Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive.