“They think Im simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldnt I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe thats the key: simple.”

“If you dont like the road youre walking, start paving another one.”

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!”

“I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.”

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

“If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

“The vast and beautiful world is the home we share together.”

“I stood there a long while, staring at that tree. It looked so strongSo beautiful. Hurt right down the middleBut alive and well. Cee touched my shoulderLightly. Frank? Yes? Come on, brother. Let's ...”

“Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?”

“Mountain is mountain.”

“That summer lying in the long grass with my head propped up against the back of a saddle, with the zenith above me and the drop of distance below, I listened to the mountain silence until I could h...”