Trying to please everybody is what you'll soon get tired of, because as time goes on, those you're pleasing will get tired of you.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Grace is the fruit of gratitude.

How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses

Ree Dolly stood at the break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat. Meat hung from trees across the creek. Carcasses hung pale of flesh with fatty gleam from low limbs of saplings in the side yards. Three halt haggard houses formed a kneeling rank on the far creekside and each had two or more skinned torsos dangling by rope from sagged limbs, venison left to the weather for two nights and three days so the early blossoming of decay might round the flavor, sweeten that meat to the bone.

Life is like a fondue: the best fruit ain__ the best till it__ been through some goo.