Hate can be passionate or disengaged; it can come from dislike but also from fear.

Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else.

Anyone can grow into something beautiful.

Your behavior is a choice; it isn’t who you are.

This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me.

Nothing you could do would make me send you away. Nothing.

Hyacinth. Please forgive me.

Over time, we would learn each other, and I would learn to love her like a mother loves a daughter, imperfectly and without roots.

I would keep her, and raise her, and love her, even if she had to teach me how to do it.

A ship will never sink if God is on it.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accustomed to be pleased.

I can remember sittin in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.

His Son Jesus, the Word of God, is our Instructor.... He is God and Creator.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

Checkers is for tramps

Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.