Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

Community is, as the very heart of civilization, the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother.

Community is grounded in this idea — It is your concern when the wall next door is on fire.

Community is grounded in dialogue — it comes as a result of folks talking 'to' one another instead of 'about'.

Custom is a tyrant.

Custom is king over all.

Custom is powerful — there is no way to erase the unwritten law.

Custom is the plague of wise men, and the idol of fools

Family is organized around the most damaged person in it.

A Family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

A Family is like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.

The Family is a group of people no two of whom like their breakfast eggs cooked the same way.

Friendship is not something you get; rather it is something you give.

Friendship is a roller coaster — He who seeks a constant friend goes to the cemetery.

Friendship is good — better a stranger made a friend than a friend made a stranger

Friendship is to do unto some one that which you would not allow him to do unto you.