“Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone”

“Why, God? You made man in your own image. Why then do so many lack good sense? And why is that we are so easily drawn to hate and kill each other? Why, God?”

“If you dont know history,you dont know anything.Edward Johnston”

“As Ive been telling your, son, you get nowhere looking at clothes and the color of the skin to judge a man. It wont tell you nothing about whats inside. Thats where a fellows mettle is, and thats w...”

“You have to learn the difference between a mans looks, and how fine he shoots. Theyve never been one and the same.”

“Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.”

“The wind comes across the plains not howling but singing. It's the difference between this wind and its big-city cousins: the full-throated wind of the plains has leeway to seek out the hidden regi...”

“If you were food, you would be corn. I dont know why, i just sense corn in you.”

“But carbon 13 [the carbon from corn] doesn't lie, and researchers who have compared the isotopes in the flesh or hair of Americans to those in the same tissues of Mexicans report that it is now we ...”

“Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: "Love. They must do it for love." Farmers farm fo...”

“The same teen who can't legally operate a four-wheeler, or [ATV]...in a farm lane workplace environment can operate a jacked-up F-250 pickup on a crowded urban expressway. By denying these [farm wo...”

“I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an ...”

“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don...”

“Never let hard lessons harden your heart; the hard lessons of life are meant to make you better, not bitter.”

“Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to ...”