“It's the small miracles that happen every day that keep us going. You just have to look for them and believe....said by Papa James in Homespun Hearts”

“Sometimes you have to stop trying to control everything and let life happen the way it's supposed to, Tess. Even if it's not exactly the way you wanted.But what if it's not even a little like you wanted?Then you deal with it and keep going.”

“Keep moving. Have a goal, One day you will arrive at a place that is better than the place where you were, even if it is only in your head.”

“It's time for Americans to vote "Patriotic" ~ Smart really isn't working for us.”

“Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.”

“...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.”

“There is nothing particularly glorious about sweaty fellows, laden with killing tools, going along to fight. And yet-such a column represents a great deal more than 28,000 individuals mustered into a division. All that is behind those men is in that column too: the old battles, long forgotten, that secured our nation -- Brandywine and Trenton and Yorktown, San Jacinto and Chapultepec, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Antietam, El Caney; scores of skirmishes, far off, such as the Marines have nearly every year in which a man can be killed as dead as ever a chap in the Argonne; traditions of things endured and things accomplished, such as regiments hand down forever; and the faith of men and the love of women; and that abstract thing called patriotism, which I never heard combat soldiers mention -- all this passes into the forward zone, to the point of contact, where war is grit with horrors. Common men endure these horrors and overcome them, along with the insistent yearnings of the belly and the reasonable promptings of fear; and in this, I think, is glory.”