Cyrus is the meat and potatoes of my life, but Prudence was a cupcake I could enjoy just for the sheer sweetness of being with her.

It's no such thing! she said. It's friendship! And if you're a man who can't tell friendship from charity, then you're to be pitied!

Church words are easy to say, but they're not so easy to live by.

Here's to the future, he said and lifted the glass to his mouth. There was a lump of regret stuck in his throat as he spoke the words, but he washed it down with the whiskey.

A man's pride will cause him to do things you never dreamed possible. He got fired up about being right and blocked out everything else.

A man cannot change who he is. He can only hope that with age comes the wisdom to see his folly. I would like to believe I have achieved that.

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

Sweets with sweets war not joy delights in joy.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

Christians have learned that when there seems to be no other evidence of God's love, they cannot escape the cross.

Everyone says social media is a unicorn, but maybe it’s just a horse?

Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

Who could ever tell a story complete?

The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.

Always be able to kill your students

Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your @$$!