On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.

Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

Lord keep Your arm around my shoulder and Your hand over my mouth.

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.