Lord, You made us and gave us breath. May we do justice, love and mercy, and walk honorably before you this day. By the precious name of Jesus, I ask for your help to do this. Amen.

They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.

Curiosity was a bad character trait for a private investigator to have. It created work.

Pride is a funny thing it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.

If your library is not "unsafe, " it probably isn't doing its job.

Hopelessness is advance failure in a disguised envelope. People are crippled to have bed-ridden dreams just because they don't believe they can take progressive steps with those dreams.

The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.

Once a guy starts using a wig, he has to keep using one. It's, like, his fate. That's why wig makers make such huge profits. I hate to say it, but they're like drug dealers.

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

Presence is more than just being there.

He who goes to the bottom of his own heart knows his own nature; And knowing his own nature, he knows heaven.

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.