- Kate Gulden: It's so much easier to be happy, my love. It's so much easier to choose to love the things that you have, and you have so much, instead of always yearning for what you're missing, or what it is you're imagining you're missing. It's so much more peaceful.
- Kate Gulden: Thank you for the world so sweet.Thank you for the food we eat.Thank you for the birds that sing.Thank you, God, for everything.
- Kate Gulden: [dressed as Dorothy] Welcome! There's no place like home!
- Ellen Gulden: [silently, to herself] Thank God.
- [to Ellen]
- George Gulden: Your mother needs you, Ellen! Jesus Christ, you got a Harvard education, but where is your heart?