God's job ain't to make our lives easier, it's to make us better souls by the lessons He gives us.

My daddy always said being brave wasn’t not being scared. Being brave was keeping going when you were.

A body can't run from what they done. They carry it with them inside. It fester and spread like poison if it's buried. It gotta be out in the air where it can heal.

She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk

It makes you love vividly, work intensely, and realize that, in the scheme of things, you really don't have time to sit on the sofa in your undies watching Homes Under the Hammer.

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

All men know their children mean more than life.

Jesus did not come to the Earth to start 285 squabbling denominations fighting over the Bible. How like the devil to divide Christians over the Bible.

Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.