Have a smile for breakfast, you'll be shitting joy by lunch.

All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the sea even, left everything I knew and came to Styria. But there I was, waiting for me at the docks when I got off the boat, same man, same life. Next valley ain't no different from this one. No better anyway. Reckon I've learned ... just to stick in the place I'm at. Just to be the man I am.

You don’t pick your family, you take what you’re given and you make the best of it.

A friendship between a man and a woman was what you called it when one had been pursuing the other for a long time and never gotten anywhere.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

Hard words are for fools and cowards.