Most of didn’t know how truly good or truly bad we were, and most of us would never be sufficiently tested to find out.

People are least aware of others when demonstrating their own power over them.

Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.

If love is what is held to make us immortal, hatred is the reverse.

That’s writing for you: when you make space for passion, it doesn’t turn up.

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

You can't touch love, but you can feel the sweetness that it pours into everything.

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

Unless you are at a picnic, life is no picnic.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.

A lot of people think I live in a soul bubble.

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.