She heard pa shouting,"Jiminy crickets!It's raining fish-hooks and hammer handles!

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

A good laugh overcomes more difficulties and dissipates more dark clouds than any other one thing.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I'll remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, bringing Grandpa and Grandma and aunts and uncles and cousins.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

Home is the nicest word there is.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

It is the simple things of life that make living worthwhile, the sweet fundamental things such as love and duty, work and rest, and living close to nature.

Courage and kindness, loyalty, truth, and helpfulness are always the same and always needed.

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.

Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

You find sprinters testing other sprinters' mental capability. But these are my good friends on the track. I don't think we need to do that.

You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.

I have not been sent to curse people, but as a mercy to all mankind.

It's just fun to be on a movie set and looking to find the comedy in sweet, simple family moments.

It's a very weird thing to know where you want to be in life and all of a sudden to actually have taken some real steps is a very strange feeling. I've really done something that I'm proud of.

The vast majority of fiction is written to markets and to this damnable business we have nowadays of categorizing everything.