A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

...Pomeranians speak only to Poodles and Poodles speak only to God.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

The sparrows are preparing for winter, each one dressed in a plain brown coat and singing a cheerful song.

Understand that you and you alone create your own opportunities, whether they come to you in the form of a lottery ticket, or a promotion, you brought that into your life.

Don't be alarmed, the god I am trying to kill is the one I hate, not the one I love

In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

The process of giving is without limits.

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

I am not ready to die, / But I am learning to trust death / As I have trusted life.

The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.