Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later.

With preference came point of view; with point of view, personality; with personality, uniqueness; with uniqueness, grief.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

Many said that now there was no hope of salvation, for a man might do anything and be in the wrong. There was no way to tell. It was better to stay on the steading and mind the cows and be content with such days as are left to one and cease to wonder about life everlasting.

Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.