The next move is always the test.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Many who are committed to reason and science have turned against religion altogether and treat it with fear and contempt.

Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."

The house shows the owner.

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

I actually called a touchdown on national TV in the NFL while going to the bathroom.

I don't want to be gone. I don't want to be somewhere else. I consider myself a Yankee.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they’ll do in any scene you put them in.

Just because you're wearing a goofy hat doesn't make it performance art.