Ah, you noticed that black sheep on the hills aren't nearly as plentiful as the white. They're a particularly hardy lot.

She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.

Every second around this girl was asking for trouble and he'd never wanted to be in trouble so bad in his life.

And then what did you do, Lord Oliver?" Karl's eight-year-old daughter gazed up at him in awe, as though this were the best story she had ever heard.

May God save any country to remain in a position to choose between a genius of bad character and a stupid of good character, because both will bring disaster to that country!

I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

Our marine terminals are invaluable commerce infrastructure, not only to our country but also for the many foreign manufacturers who sell primarily in the U.S. market.

I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

I try to be as intentional as possible.

In a lethal world, poetry is necessary for survival.

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.