The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

There should be fireworks at last, when a dream dies.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.

Our actions make the fragrance of our lives...Would you smell of plums? Or Vinegar?

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.

I've always been a bookworm. As I mentioned, I moved around a lot, and one of the problems with being the new kid is it takes a while to make new friends. But I always had my books.

Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.

finding peace will help pave your path.you have to be [fully] present to experienceand understand what you need to keep going.

There was no heaven here. Eternal life meant waking up as a putrid corpse.

It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write.

They say hell is other people. I believe that. But what I didn’t know until now is so can heaven be.

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread.

There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends,for it is one of God's best gifts.