The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

When the kingdom leaves the church, the church stops living for herself

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

You get addicted to emotions. Our endorphins kick in and it's like a high. On the low end you might love roller coasters. On the high end you might be a bank robber or something.

God's love doesn't leave out Jews or Muslims or anyone.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

Do all you can with what you have in the time you have in the place you are.

I'm just trying to wake up - I'm so afraid of sleeping all my life and then dying - I want to wake up first. I wouldn't care if it was just for an hour, as long as I was properly alive and awake.