I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny light in the dark, and it burned very low but no winds could make it flicker because it would not give up.