Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life’s problems when you count them as joy.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

I would rather listen to someone who tried and failed than someone who dreamed but never tried.

The biggest obstacle to learning is LISTENING with ears to hear.

The idea that human kind can shape the world according to wish is what I call the fatal conceit

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business.

We still have time to negotiate, we still have time for diplomacy, because there are still a number of issues that have not been clarified, that created a lack of confidence.

In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.