We were the new people here. We weren’t part of their group. We had to prove ourselves.

I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.

Life is a great Book. We are writing the history of our time.

It is not a brave thing to trust God. To true believers, it is a sweet necessity.

I figured I got the prettiest, sweetest, smartest wife ever to be, " he said softly.

The good lawyer is the great salesman.

Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.

The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.