But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.

K.I.S.SKeep. It. Simple. Stupid.

It's like she wears an "I'm-always-happy" mask. I used to play along.

Everything is created twice, first in the mind and then in reality.

Prayer is the starting point for every decision you make.

This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.

Don't concentrate on what you lack, concentrate on what you have. Then give all of it to Jesus for His use.

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

A shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.

Gasoline inventories are tighter than they were a few weeks ago. It's all about perception, because inventories are well above where they have been in previous years.

Extremists on all sides thrive, fed by the blood lust of centuries gone by.

Rich people buy luxuries last, while the poor and middle class tend to buy luxuries first.

Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed.