Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.
To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.
I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.
You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.
Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
Nixon's own protection from the assassin's bullet. . . nattering nabobs of negativism.
About half an hour before air time - that's when I become hyper. I put everything else out of my mind and just let that nervous energy surge through my body. I start talking faster and louder. My confidence comes up. It's actually a great feeling.
What happened in my personal life affected my career too. I am not perfect and I have made a lot of mistakes. Being an entrepreneur is incredibly lonely. There were many hurdles along the way. From starting out, to making it, and almost losing it, to fighting back, to nearly losing it all again. There have been extreme highs and extreme lows.
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.