This is the hour of the Shire-folk, when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the pa...
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Let my silence grow with noise as pregnant mothers grow with life. Let my silence permeate these walls as sunlight permeates a home. Let the silence rise from unwatered graves and craters left by bomb...
You haunt my days and dreams.
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of signif...
It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest ac...
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
The father who has selflessly poured himself into the life of his children may leave no other monument than that of his children. But as for a life well lived, no other monument is necessary.