Laura Ingalls Wilder

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones who have nothing to do but smell.

There is a place in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.

"This earthly life is a battle," said Ma. "If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It always has been so, and it always will be. The sooner you make up your mind to that, the better off you are, and the more thankful for your pleasures."

Remember well, and bear in mind, a constant friend is hard to find.

As you read my stories of long ago I hope you will remember that things truly worthwhile and that will give you happiness are the same now as they were then. It is not the things you have that make you happy. It is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.

Sometimes when you start a thing, you have to finish it.

Home is the true center, the focus of life. It is a refuge where life can be stubbornly persisted in when the outside world is cold and hostile; a place where genuine love can be found.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.