“If words are the truth, what is living for?”

“After all, tomorrow the sun will rise with the lights of endless possibilities. Don’t dwell in the darkness of yesterday.”

“The best self help book I’ve ever read was, The little Engine that Could.”

“Most High God, how excellent is thy Holy name.”

“If opportunities don’t open the door, then learn to manufacture the key.”

“The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.”

“Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve done will have mattered as much.”

“Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.”

“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”

“You can knock on a deaf man’s door forever.”

“Time is a structured perception towards observable changes.”

“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind – perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong”

“The world isn’t fair, Calvin.””I know Dad, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?”