Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.

The sweet reward for preparation often does not come in the youthful twenties or staid thirties. It arrives - with accrued interest - in the mature years.

Your smile carries my heart away every time that I see you.

Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.

I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgmental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

All of it—for this. Leading us to a door we can't open, a password we don't have.

As a rule I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.

Alcohol does not make ugly people attractive. It makes it so you could care less that they're ugly.

Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.

Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.