Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.

Uncle said, "If love would save him, wouldn't no harm come to him.

I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

They were so in love with the world, and so disappointed in every aspect of it.

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.

Today we live in a cash-for-trash world. Anyone can stand up and say anything unkind, unfair or completely untrue about you, and then they are rewarded financially for it ... because life is unfair.

They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.

Train yourself: It is not by accident an artist becomes a good painter.