My father and brothers were coal miners.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

Give generously.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?

Nothing is fun until you're good at it.

I have no time for things that have no soul.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

When I get angry, it's with purpose. My purpose is to solve a problem. And I never lose sight of that.

Ultraliberalism today translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy.

In our modern world today, we may seem like drowning men because of the loss of much of our spiritual tradition.