Ma sighed gently and said, "A whole year gone, Charles." But Pa answered, cheerfully: "What's a year amount to? We have all the time there is.

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.

God wants to take care of us, raise us up and direct us in life

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

To conquer death you only have to die.

To the Christian death is the exchanging of a tent for a building.

The writing process is very much like being in a dark tunnel, and you don't really know what you will end up with until you have created it.

To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

For those you work with or interact with regularly .. get a notebook and write down positive aspects of each of those people.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?