More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.

Joy explodes throughout the book of Psalms like fireworks, and is the most potent anti-missile defense system there is.

She smelled like a mountain valley in springtime and made him dream of the future in a way he hadn’t considered possible.

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

I don't trust people who don't use profanity.

You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air.