... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.

Home is a place where we all do as we please - usually regardless of the others.

The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.

But somewhere on the great world the sun is always shining, and, just so sure as you live, it will sometime shine on you.

the world has been fair cruel if you've never known the love of a dog!