You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.

Never discipline whom you've not discipled.

The promises you speak over your children can take on the weight of destiny.

They hate us because we don't even know why they hate us.

An infantryman’s job is to deliver his enemies into the waiting hands of Death. It is Doc’s job to protect his brothers from Death, to knock him aside and say, “Not today.

I once was absolutely useless, and God in His grace has made me useful.

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

You can't change the desert. You can only take the fastest course through it. Wishing it's an oasis won't make it so.

If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.