“Takes more than beer in your blood to take the English out of you.”

“My biggest Buff Orpinton rooster is on the small corral fence letting the world know he is in charge, all puffed up and sassy. There is nothing more silly than a rooster taking over the world, but every day he things he can. I wonder if we are just a little part of the world, like that rooster, and that the real things go on around us while we strut in our own yards trying to take charge of things.”

“To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.”

“I imagined an impulsive Robert taking Henrietta's hands and proclaiming, "I love your sister dearly. Madly. We are betrothed.”

“Take my love for granted," he said, "and I shall do the same for you.”

“God doesn't take away the problem. He gives you a different solution, and that solution lies in the power only He can give you.”

“This flesh in which we live is nothing more than a cocoon, and only when we step out of it do we truly begin to live.”