Be careful how close you get to someone... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.

They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith…

No child should ever be too sad to play.

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.

…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord…

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

Do good and be a good person because that’s just what the Lord expects. There just ain’t nothing special about being and doing good. It’s what the Lord expects…

Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.

No, Ashok. Love is not a tap. It flows and flows like blood from a wound, and you can die of it.

Pink, You are gentle and sweet just like this rose. When your rose pink lips smiled at me that first time I remembered how to smile.~Riley

So much of what comes out of the faith community seems so dour and somber, and we want to say, 'Hey, we're real people. You can be a person of faith and really enjoy life and laugh.'

Like most authors, I also love to read.

Money was invented so we could know exactly how much we owe.

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

When you have a dream, it's going to be a lot of "I can't" people. You need to be the driving force to say I can.

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.

In high school, I was just a guy who ran the court and played defense. Now I have the whole package.

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.