The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world. Someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.

Tom Kizzia hasn't just observed and written about Alaska for three-plus decades, he's lived it. 'Pilgrim's Wilderness' is a story that needed to be told by the only man who could tell it.