I can remember that little thrill - that little shiver of excitement - when the Opry audience would encore a person because that person had touched them so.

Silence isn't golden. It's yellow.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag, serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that protester the freedom to abuse and burn that flag.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

When a child has no hope, a nation has no future.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.

What she felt was a lighthearted sort of compassion, almost like laughter. A swish of tender hilarity, getting the better of all her sores and hollows, for the time given.

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?

Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love.

The sea isn't a place but a fact, and a mystery.

Danger is to adventure what garlic is to spaghetti sauce. Without it, you just end up with stewed tomatoes.

I want to be some kind of a pilot. And the other thing that I really like is psychology.