Ted Chaough

"When the skies are a bright canary yellow
I forget every cloud I’ve ever seen
So they called me a cockeyed optimist
Immature and incurably green."
—South Pacific

"I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit."
—William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

"Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop’d,
I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell."
—Walt Whitman, 'Song of the Open Road'

"Things seemed righter when you did them than when you thought about them."
—John Steinbeck, 'The White Quail'

"But for tonight, just for now, when everything hurts, let me just find someplace to drop."
—J.D. Salinger

"We were never perfect.
Yet, the journey we make together is perfect on this earth who was
once a star and made the same mistakes as humans."
—Joy Harjo, ‘A Map to the Next World’

"Either be groovy or leave, man."
—Bob Dylan