The best endings resonate because they echo a word, phrase, or image from earlier in the story, and the reader is prompted to think back to that reference and speculate on a deeper meaning.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

No matter what level of your ability you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.

The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars.

Don't panic and lose hope even if there's a mountain in your pathtalk to the One who created the mountains.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

Love: It will kill you and save you, both

It's a great discipline to have to report to somebody, even if you're the sole owner

I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.