If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.

A man who wouldn't cheat for a poke don't want one bad enough. --Augustus "Gus" McCrae

If I had a mind to rent pigs, I'd be mighty upset. A man that likes to rent pigs won't be stopped.

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit