Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.

You never know how bad a situation is going to be until you come out of it. But the nation has had two major hurricanes in [several] weeks, and we will be stronger because of it.

As long as I loved and served Christ I could be anything I wanted to be.

Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.

Back in the days when I was growing up, the SWAC had as good of talent as any schools in the state.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.

I am no longer tied to the cliffsThreats don’t hold any groundI have decided to fly highOn the winds of cool complacence

My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.

Laughter is wholesome. God is not so dull as some people make out. Did not He make the kitten to chase its tail.

There's a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.

The church is under orders. Evangelistic inactivity is disobedience.

Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

Sensitivity is a sign of strength. It's not about toughening up, it's about smartening up.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.