“I have learned that a man can leave his home and the things that matter - that going does not have to mean gone. ”

“Aunt Becky's home holds a lot of things that have been passed down from wife to wife over generations. There's a loving legacy that sits on those walls and inside them. My mother-in-law's home is very similar....Is it just a matter of making things beautiful? Or does it go deeper than that? Does it go to the spirit of what beauty is? Does a beautiful home ensure a beautiful spirit? Not necessarily. But a beautiful spirit can make a beautiful home. And maybe that's what I need to work on creating.”

“During these three months I have gone through much; I mean, I have gone through much in myself; and now there are the things I am going to see and go through. There will be much to be written.”

“I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.”

“Simple' does not mean 'easy'. I have learned that the things that seem the simplest are often the most powerful of all.”

“Ignorance means that you have not yet learned a skill, whereas stupidity means that you can never learn it no matter how much practice you get.”