It takes a lot of mulch, love does, to create a froth.

The people in your life are like the pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up, and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's enough to know they are standing by.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always cost more.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Most women would rather have someone whisper their name at optimum moments than rocket with contractions to the moon.

Our strength is in our dreams, and those who do not dare to dream damn themselves.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

I personally believe that one learns to write by writing.

The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead.

Fear of failure is what fuels me, keeps me on edge and sharp. I'm not as good when I'm comfortable.

I have a hard time visualizing anything, which is why I'm not a director, and which is why I try to work with ones I know have a strong idea in mind.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

The future and eternity are two entirely different things.

The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

You can't regulate child labor. You can't regulate slavery. Some things are just wrong.

No man knows what the wife of his bosom is until he has gone with her through the fiery trials of this world.