Wallace Stegner

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons.

Most things break including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom but to scar tissue and callus.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill.

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Hard writing makes easy reading.

It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.