The place where you live – your home – is one of the most important things in a body’s life.
Helen and Buster got down and started praying with Mom, but I just stood there looking at them. The way I saw it, I was the one who’d saved us all, not Mom and not some guardian angel.
You know you’re down and out when Okies laugh at you,′ she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we’d out-Okied the Okies.
Dad said High Lonesome, as the area was known, wasn’t a place for the soft of head or the weak of heart, and he said that was why he and I made out just fine there, because we were both tough nuts.
Everyone has something good about them,” she said. “You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.” “Oh yeah?” I said. “How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?” “Hitler loved dogs,” Mom said without hesitation.
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
Nobody’s perfect. We’re all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
In this world, it’s not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you got it.
When someone’s wounded, the first order of business is to stop the bleeding. You can figure out later how best to help them heal.
Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.
If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.
Horses are a mirror of who you are. They’re emotionally dependent on you.
God deals us all different hands. How we play ’em is up to us.
You’re in a horse race but you’re thinking like a sheep. Sheep don’t win horse races.
Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
Interesting people always have a past.
I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.
Sometimes you have to get sicker before you can get better.