When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It often comes disguised as loss, or failure, or unwelcome change.
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
We are just a blip. I found it very interesting when Clive [Oppenheimer] interviewed the Ethiopian scientists and asked them, "Do we have another 100,000 years?" In their calculation, mankind will be entering a very critical phrase a thousand years from now.
we each devise our means of escape from the intolerable.
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. . . . . The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.
[Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.