“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”

“Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do”

“Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.”

“Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!”

“Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.”

“Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.”

“If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.”

“no, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like ...”

“She was probably the girl I loved the most of all my girlfriends, but also the toughest one to make things work out with. If I had put that much effort into any of my other relationships, I'd be ma...”

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time. Even Grandma often says that, but she and Steppa don't have jobs, so I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and al...”