I think your vision gets better as you get older.

But words are more powerful than anything.

A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible?

Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world, and known it, through the eyes of love.

Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a formDo not confuse itwith any kind of absence

Fair is the marigold, for pottage meet.

Biblically, waiting is not just something we have to do until we get what we want. Waiting is part of the process of becoming what God wants us to be.

Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

Don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.

If religion and churches are truly threats to our liberties, how did those liberties survive, and in such healthy condition, all those years of classroom prayer and Bible-reading?