In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

With patient persistence, you will conquer any situation.

Triumphant moments are for wise thinkers...

The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well.

Too big, too empty, too heartbreaking . . . Too much to cope with

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can't Make Him Think.

Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.