Bea stared at the pencils as if they were enemies.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

Prayer is better than pills.

The breeze around them seemed to drop – dead – like a door to the best things had just closed.

He had become the sky around the sun – alive, but not really there.

Youngsters deserve no opinions.

A silence absorbed them both – a lack of sound so potent it blackened the place with something richer than hate.

She heard him speak, but did not recognise the problem in his voice – only later did she realise it was that thing he’d been concealing – known as guilt.

Too old for dolls. Too ill for tablets.

Shush – it’s silent time again.

I’ll be your friend until you find a better one.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

There is no such thing as an average human being. If you have a normal brain, you are superior.

You can never give complete authority and overall power to anyone until trust can be proven.

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

When I hear the word 'culture,' I get out my revolver.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

He has the power to heal and strengthen the soul. He is Jesus Christ.

While my classmates were reading their textbooks, I drew in the margins.

Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.