Some things are beyond human understanding.

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

If you try to use Christ as a solution to your problems, it will not work. You have to serve Him in order for Him to serve you.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

The righteous ones are always exhausting to have around.

You've written three lines" "Three carefully considered lines,"Xavier objected. "Quality over quantity, remember

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Never love that which you cannot keep.

If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.

Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.

I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.

Leadership is the self-confidence of working with people smarter than you.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

It's already 95 degrees outside. Mississippi got the most unorganized weather in the nation.

Once you learn how to die you learn how to live.

Do some selfless service for people who are in need. Consider the whole picture, not just our little selves.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

I am disappointed and disturbed by both the NFL and the Dodgers - but much more by the Dodgers.