It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

Steadily, we are listening more to the intelligence of our hearts—and acting on that wisdom. And that's what spirituality is—an expression of Love.

And I'm telling you now the frustration The future's facing from the anger in the nation.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

Topiary has always seemed like a good occupation, comparable in some ways to writing short fiction.

We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time.

A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs.