Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.

What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.

This, I thought, was true love. Someone who made you happy without saying a word.

Libraries help you to dream!

When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are.

We can all share with Nora and then she will have breakfast too!

I come to the understanding that maybe what was on the inside was more important, and that your outer covering didn't count so much as folks thought it did, colored or white, man or woman.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

I have found that the greatest stories of acceptance and love and the ugliest stories of hideous cruelty and abuse have equally been perpetrated in the name of Christian faith.

Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy.

music isn't just something that comforts or distracts us, it goes beyond that - it's an ideology. you can judge people by the kind of music they listen to.

There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to those people.

Beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.