Here's what Mike knew about kids: They did stupid stuff. Pretty much all of them.

Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it--second chances when all hope was lost.

Women who got married got screwed.

It made no sense to him, this idea that some people got God and some people didn't.

If you can, judge less and observe more.

Go spend time with the aspen trees. They'll tell you how it works. They'll tell you to look to your roots for energy. They'll tell you there's warmth below the surface.

So the real question remains whether every problem is worth fixing. The answer to that is no.

What was it, she wondered, that made some people give up and others fight harder? Where was her fight? She was out.

Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it-second chances when all hope was lost.

If women had power what would men be but women who can't bear children? And what would women be but men who can?

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters.

God is not supposed to fix the earth, he created man for that.

Just because you can, doesn't necessarily mean that you sh

Sometimes the answer we need is in our heart. We just have to listen to it.

You have to love what you're doing. I've never seen anyone succeed who didn't love what they were doing.

I don't break up, I trade up

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.