“It's easy for Americans to forget that the food they eat doesn't magically appear on a supermarket shelf.”

“Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.”

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”

“Human thinking can be changed if man is offered the pleasure of money or the sadness of its absence.”

“Economic and financial conversion is actually attainable, thanks to this principle of truth and honesty.”

“If we don't learn from each others experience, we are forced to listen to people who have economic reasons to withhold critical information from us all. The other option is to wait for the governme...”

“Doesnt that feel safe: a whole world protected by $1 safety-switches.”

“How the hell do I know? It just hurts me to think about it....And its not because you're a great lay. Though you are. But I've had great lays before, and I didn't get torn up. You should have known...”

“Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all.”