Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.

There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don’t help people who don’t have better values than you do.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.