Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time.

This was long before the term 'single-parent family' came into use

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

Slumps in life are like soft beds. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.

Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.

If there is a time of judgment, instead of theological or institutional litmus tests, the only question asked about our life and spirituality will be "Did you love with abandonment?"

I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.