In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street.

Death seemed to lose its terrors and to borrow a grace and dignity in sublime keeping with the life that was ebbing away.

The war had made some into libertines and some into serious, sober men.

If your children know who God is they will know who they are, regardless of where you or they call home.

When you are giving people the gospel, you are giving them something to believe, and you have to set the stage for that. You don't just drive up and dump the truck and drive off.

I love to feel glamourous. I love to have other women feel glamourous.

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

There is a definite way to do this. There is a training program that you will go through and it's delightful. It's absolutely beautiful.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man

Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.

I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.

Even going to [ Kanye West] warehouse and modeling for a lot of his new season stuff taught me about my silhouette, how the clothes fit - I've definitely learned a lot being around him.