A government that thinks it can remedy personal failure is an intrusion in everybody’s life. No law is going to cure a human’s lack of physical or mental effectiveness. I’d rather see democracy promote strength than reward weakness.

— Dan Groat

A hopeful journey is more important than the destination.

— Dan Groat

A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature’s demolition team comes in.

— Dan Groat

As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

— Dan Groat

As I have aged, I’ve been lucky never to reach old. Old is always at least five or ten years beyond my current calendar stage.

— Dan Groat

A silence overtook the odd family in their odd surroundings as loss became the mockery of the moment, and they were caught up in the emotional release that is common in a theater audience after the sudden ending of a tragic movie; the curtain closes, and the people are still in their seats, numb and sighing their way back into reality.

— Dan Groat

As you get older, you have to be willing and able to choose your own path for your life. And once you choose it, you walk it with strength. If you meet evil along the way, know that it is supposed to make you afraid, but it’s not supposed to stop you. You walk through the fear, and you walk through the evil, and you don’t let either one become your master.

— Dan Groat

Back home. What wonderful words. What a wonderful place.

— Dan Groat

Being tough today might cause you to be weak in the future.

— Dan Groat

Books required no interchanges of thoughts and feelings, no trading of expectations, no traffic of words, no menace of real loss. Reading books required far less energy than reading people; the pages seldom disappointed him, and they never died.

— Dan Groat