Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.

I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

It's really not that hard to put food on the table if that's what you decide to do.

Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are

When I asked my mother, ‘how do I tell people about you’ her answer was ‘tell the truth’. But of course, the truth is never simple.

If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.