No one can tell, when two people walk closely together, what unconscious communication one mind may have with another

Prayer is like pearls.

And I feel like a real Dad when I read to her at night. She won't sleep without one story, at least.

I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

Baby I'll never forget none of that. Girl I told you I was comin back.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water.

I hate being thought of as a product.

The fact that we are loved and accepted and forgiven in spite of everything we have done is simply too good to be true.

Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater.