- Narrator: [narration as John 'John Boy' Walton, Jr. reading from his journal] When you're part of a family where eleven people live under one roof, you're not likely to spend much time thinking about loneliness; you're more likely to be looking for ways to have even a few minutes by yourself. But, I remember a visitor who showed us all the face of loneliness, not only her own, but that of a man close to us, a man we had, until then, taken for granted, but had never really known.
- Olivia Walton: Corabeth, people get married for different reasons; security, companionship, love; sometimes all three from the very beginning. But, other times, two people can start for just one good reason: needing each other. And gradually over the years, other good things grow out of their being together. Not always, but sometimes.
- Ike Godsey: I never told anybody this before, but I don't sleep in pajamas.
- John Walton, Sr.: Now, you see the thing about marriage, Ike, is you give up some of your old ways and you take on some new ways. I'll bet you can get used to sleeping in pajamas, Ike.
- John Walton, Sr.: Well, Ike, the way you stop being lonely is to join up with somebody else. Share your life with somebody else.