We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up.

The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own two legs and walk. Get off the bus and go get on another. Climb out of the ditch and cross the road. Find the road that s where you want to go. ... The only sermon that counts is the one that is formed by our actions. She would quit drinking and thereby show Kyle life is what you make it. A person can grab hold of her life and change things for the better. This happens all the time. We are not chips of wood drifting down the stream of time. We have oars.