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We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

The beginnings are gone, Laurel. But we can start with today and what you got around you.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot.

We all don't have to see eye to eye in order to see our way to the Kingdom. It's the heart condition of each man that the Lord will judge.

The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

Just like that chicken coop, everything got four sides: his side, her side, an outside, and an inside. All of it is the truth.

A star dies in heaven every time you snatch away someone's dream.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Contempt mates well with pity.

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue.

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

When you raise a god instead of a child, you're bound to be serving him for the rest of your days. Same thing holds when you marry a god.

Old as he was, he still missed his daddy sometimes.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115).

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

You can lose a lot when you travel too much.

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.

Black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.

I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power.

There are many subtle ways with which you can make one strong point.

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body
an overwhelming sense of calm ... I actually began to feel blessed.

A loud voice is not always angry; a soft voice not always to be dismissed; and a well-placed silence can be the indisputable last word.

I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself.

But I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

You can't teach talent. You can't put in what God left out - but you can teach confidence.

1) "school isn't where the real learning happens." (3).

The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.

Like they say, it takes all types to make the world. But sometimes you wish it didn't.

Power knows power.

Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers.