There is a great deal of trouble in this world which is not caused by people keeping their mouths shut.
There is only one path which leads to the house of forgiveness - that of understanding.
... no matter how one's heart aches, one can do the necessary things and do them well.
The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.
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.
The spirit in which one earns his daily bread means as much to his soul as the bread itself may mean to his body.