“It is easy to tell the toiler
How best he can carry his pack
But no one can rate a burden's weight
Until it has been on his back”

“He bore the burden of a pioneer and the weight made him strong. If one can be certain of anything in baseball, it is that we shall not look upon his like again.”

“One never realizes how different a husband and wife can be until they begin to pack for a trip.”

“The weight of the world is love.
Under the burden of solitude,
under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight, the weight we carry is love.”

“His nation of liberty was founded on the backs of Negro slaves and at the cost of exterminating the aborigines. As far as I can tell, the Yankee’s idea of freedom is his right to carry a pistol with which he may shoot strangers in the street.”

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.”

“He knows his own strength; he knows that he was born to carry burdens.”

“You can always tell how a man will treat his wife by the way he treats his mother.”

“No one has a monopoly of the true God, nor is there a nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that it has been given the exclusive right to the Creator or sole knowledge of His Being.”

“Look.... the sky!... you can feel the weight of it. It's as if it were packed with snow.”