Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

Goals reveal your path to success, greatness and significance. Become a master goal setter and you will chart the course of your life.

It was a dark story.

90% of what we do daily is not what we think, it's just driven by our desires and not potentials.

Don’t you think it’s sad some people are only remembered by the graffiti about them on the bathroom stalls?

Everyone can use a little beauty.

I'm convinced that petting a puppy is good luck.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.

A symbolic victory is still a victory.

It was not always easy because I was always an individual and found it difficult to be one of a group.