There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.

For the most part, we carnivores do not eat other carnivores. We prefer to eat our vegetarian friends.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.

Heathen n. A beknighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

I truly thank whoever's up there for giving me the opportunity to be loved.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

I feel like humor is a part of life. I don't think it comes through as much in the novels as it does in my head.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

Good guys need to be a little dirty otherwise they're just boring.