Never discount good intentions, for good intentions may be all one has to offer. - Eilish in "No-Till" by Basil Pearl.

News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)

ottom of page 33:We all want to feel needed, and we also want to be with people who can manage on their own, if needbe.

Have you ever wondered which hurts more:Saying something and wishing you hadn't, or saying nothing and wishing you had?

It just takes one serious thought to change a person, either to one he always wanted to be or into one he never wished to be.

You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about what might never happen.

How curious it was, how ironic, he decided, that the human brain seemed capable of understanding almost everything but itself.

There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream

If they'd given her a proper time machine, she probably would have used it to cuddle with him. Let somebody else kill Hitler.

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.

How do you explain to your friend's mother why a night out with friends has left her daughter dying from an ecstasy overdose?

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.