Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.

I believe that our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there's a gain. Sometimes we're so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.

Have pity, Lord, on those who love and are separated.

I have noticed a marked improvement in FEMA and with the coordination of FEMA and the State agencies.

A happy life is a life for others.

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when sad tries to bite its lip and not cry, and smile and say, "No I'm happy for you"? Thats when it's really sad.

At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark, and we are put into the shadow of God’s hand until we learn to hear Him.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.