You were perfect – perfect for me – and I love you

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.

People say things are going to be Hell without even the slightest notion of what Hell is.

It was no secret joke that brought the smile and the sparkle in his eye, it was physics.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Wit is far more often a shield than a lance.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

In a free society, it is hard for 'good' people to do 'good', but that is a small price to pay for making it hard for 'evil' people to do 'evil', especially since one man's good is another's evil

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

They call me Tater Salad

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.