So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

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.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

We have to be alone, to know that we are everything!

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

When someone else makes a mistake, it is their responsibility to correct it, but it is your responsibility to handle how you feel about it.

The root of joy, as of duty, is to put all one's powers towards some great end.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

I don't really believe in palm readers and crystal balls and tarot cards, but I respond to the need for them.

I know that to be a good player, you have to stay healthy, and you have to be as athletic as you can possibly be.