Quotes from Stanley Gordon West

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

Sometimes it seems to us that that's all life is… just rearranging furniture and keeping house on the deck of the Titanic.

Good happens, every morning that the sun rises, every night that the moon shines, every moment that the earth turns. And if you're brave enough to look in the elephant's eye, you see, finally, that behind the sadness there is joy.

What do you think you're here to do?' She paused a moment, gazing out the rattling side window at the distant mountains. 'To help people along the way, ' she said, 'to bring them hot coffee when they're cold and scared to death and hangin' on for dear life.

See what you've done? It's catching. That great kid, going an extra mile because you're a great kid.

Have fun, and learn something.

Sam Pickett, English teacher and former basketball coach at Willow Creek High School, scrounged for sleep in his tangled bed. He was thirty-six years old and he hadn't a clue as to who he was or what his life was about. He bore a wound he couldn't heal. He

He wished they could drive all night, that the earth would rotate away from them at such a rate that they would never reach Willow Creek...