“A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.”

“Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little. ~E.W. Howe”

“A reasonable probability is the only certainty.”

“A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.”

“But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.”

“When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.”

“God has spoken, " at sundry times" as well as in. "diverse manners"And if we are to understand what He has spoken we must learn to distinguish, not only the various peoples whom He has spoken, but "the sundry times" at which He has spoken to them, and also the. "diverse manners".”