I been stackin up like I'm fundraisin
Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.
You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.
Horses were never wrong. They always did what they did for a reason, and it was up to you to figure it out.
Nobody's perfect. We're all just one step up from the beasts and one step down from the angels.
One benefit of Summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
My advice to anyone is to figure out what you're good at - what it is that you love doing the most in life - and figure out a way to make a living from it.
And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.
When my Mama asks me will I ever change, I tell her yeah. . . But it's clear I will always be the same until the end of time.
Christianity. . . is an Eastern religion.
There is a sadness at the back of life which some people do not attempt to mitigate. Entirely aware of their own standing in the shadow, and yet alive to every tremor and gleam of existence, there they endure.