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.

When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.

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.

Things usually work out in the end." "What if they don't?" "That just means you haven't come to the end yet.

Interesting people always have a past.

She had her addictions and one of them was reading.

Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.