All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls....

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Make it your habit to behold the Light without the glass, so that when the glass is shattered you may not be left blind.

Life's waters flow from darkness. Search the darkness, don't run from it.

All maps are fiction when the world is seen from the sky. But if ten thousand dragons choose to believe in this one, I think you will find it nearer truth than otherwise.

It's a very difficult age when the forces of time want to destroy us and take us away. They're just snatching people like devils; death comes and grabs each of us.

I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and storing books I know I'm not going to read anytime soon.

I don't think you can love Jesus without loving His wife.

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

Advertising in the past has been predicated on a mass market and a captive audience.

I should be European. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.

I don't like being naïve about the market, and I always try to make things as great as I can. Then I hope that there's an audience that enjoys them, and that hopefully those things get protected.

Im not the type of person to point fingers at anybody, and I dont want anybody saying anything to me. There are situations where balls are bounced to your feet you dont say anything.

Being Poet Laureate made me realize I was capable of a larger voice. There is a more public utterance I can make as a poet.