One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a pretty girl.

It's politics . . . It makes everybody stupid. When you grow up, you'll know what I mean.

Carolina beach music, " Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.

Wasn't Atlanta the murder capital of the U.S. last year?" "Yes, but the airport's perfectly safe.

The body's a funny thing. It's so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

Too many people are counting on you to cross that finish line. Please don't disappoint yourself and them.

Every truth passes through 3 stages before it is recognized 1)ridicule 2) opposition 3) accepted as self-evident.

My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.

Anything less would not have been worthy of me. Anything more would not have been possible.

And make death proud to take us.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.

You can recognize women who are grateful to be a daughter of God by their outward appearance. These women understand their stewardship over their bodies and treat them with dignity.

Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.

Give up the drop and gain the whole ocean.