He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Stop yelling. If everyone’s yelling, no one can be heard.

There is only one thing I fear now-love. For I have seen it and I have felt it and I know that it is love, not death, that undoes us.

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth.

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

There is an advantage to be found in most everything that happens to you, even if it is not immediately apparent.

My father had put these things on the table. I looked at him standing by the sink. He was washing his hands, splashing water on his face. My mamma left us. My brother, too. And now my feckless, reckless uncle had as well. My pa stayed, though. My pa always stayed. I looked at him. And saw the sweat stains on his shirt. And his big, scarred hands. And his dirty, weary face. I remembered how, lying in my bed a few nights before, I had looked forward to showing him my uncle's money. To telling him I was leaving. And I was so ashamed.