An agrarian mind begins with the love of fields and ramifies in good farming, good cooking & good eating

No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heart why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifice. But there were times too when I lived in a desert and felt no joy and saw no hope and could not remember my old feelings. Then I lived by faith alone, faith without hope. What good did I get from it? I got to have love in my heart.

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.