Persuasion

"Persuasion is an art that begins in charity, not in righteousness."

- Reid Buckley - Speaking in Public

The True Mind-enhancing Drug

"The true mind-enhancing drug that the generation of the 1960s and those of the decades since have been searching for is literature."

- Reid Buckley -

Fat Books

"Don't be discouraged by fat books. In every fat book, there's a little thin book trying to get out."

- Paul Zindel - The Pigman and Me

The Birds of Sadness

"You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair."

- Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons

Trust

"Trust, and not submission, defines obedience."

- Joan W. Blox -
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal 1830-32 (Winner of the Newbery Medal)

A Day No Pigs Would Die

"One chore done good beats two done ragged."

"Papa works all the time. He don't never rest. And worse than that, he works inside himself. I can see it on his face. Like he's been trying all his life to catch up to something. But whatever it is, it's always ahead of him, and he can't reach it."

"That's what being a man is all about, boy. It's just doing what's got to be done."

"It's hell to be poor!"

"When you're the only one to do something, it always gets done."

"Somewhere down under all that Vermont clay was my father, Haven Peck. Buried deep in the land he sweated so hard and longed to own so much. And now it owned him."

Robert Newton Peck

If Not Forgotten

"If not forgotten, not gone."

- David McCullough -