She taught me what's important, and what isn't. And I've never forgotten. And that's what mothers do, I say.

I’m alone with the ghost of the swamp, somewhere near the weeping willows.

I'm not sure if my dream is a dream, or a nightmare.

Our great adventure ran out of petrol and stopped on this farm.

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.

I tell him about ... Jack and Annabel, smart and ready and I'm wondering where all that smart comes from and I figure some from parents, some from school, and some from a place inside you.

It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.

I'm glad she left me the kids. I'd be lost without them. Lost and bitter. With them here, I'm only bitter.

I walked out of his room sure I'd said the right thing maybe not as a father but as a Dad. I'd said the right thing, for once in my life.

She didn't have an answer for that. People like her only ever have questions.

I know that today, with a full tank, and with Annabel, that it's time to go.

She's cool in bed, as she ought to be, cuz Ethyl's dead.

Often we will learn more from our failures than we do from our successes.

I you think you've done it, then you're wrong. Because you're not finished until you have achieved everything that you never thought you could.

It's easy to set up binaries of who's good and who's bad, who is right and who is wrong. But I really don't think that way. I believe that people can change and grow.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Your employee should have superior technical skills than you. If he doesn't, it means you have hired the wrong person.

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

A successful learner, . . . must be constrained to draw some conclusions from the input and not others.