No child should ever be too sad to play.

They cried. Yes, yes, they cried. Cried more tears than the Mississippi could hold, but those tears never washed away their faith…

Papas should be loving their children so much that they cry when they gone. That’s what papas is supposed to do.

Do whatever you must do to protect your children and wife.

He says that we must protect our families no matter what. No matter what we got to do to protect them.

Mamas are always crying about how one day they see you as a baby, and the next morning, they see you growed up.

…when you lonely is the best time to pray, to speak to the Lord, and most important, to listen to the Lord…

Be careful how close you get to someone... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.

Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—

Do good and be a good person because that’s just what the Lord expects. There just ain’t nothing special about being and doing good. It’s what the Lord expects…

Samuel finally understood the sound of the wind after all these years: The winds were a chorus of the prairie’s ever-present heartaches.

Always be smarter than the people who hire you.

I’m planting a tree to remind me to be open and kindhearted.

What we need now are new stories to share with each other, new tales to live into the world, which is to say, stories to make real by living our own versions of them.

She gives me the finger and turns back around. "Did you see that?" I flinch at the gesture. "That is completely illegal in here.

As ill-luck would have it.

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.

If your business requires your presence you don't have a business, you have a job.