Each new day is another chapter in the unfolding promise of deliverance and life.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

I do not fear failure. I only fear the "slowing up" of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.

Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again.

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.

Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.

There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.