The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?

Seek help from God.

We need to have a measure of love and freedom at all times, even with the ones we love much in our lives.

Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.

In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.