The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Good to evil seems evil

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Beware the autumn people

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

No more need to rob Peter to pay Paul with Cosmic Ordering.

The miracle lies in the newness of a morning.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.

Oh that was your girl? I thought I recognized her.

It's only game. Why you have to be mad?

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

If you want to be rich, don’t allow yourself the luxury of excuses.

The only thing that a man may do that is new, is to write himself on human hearts.