The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.

As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie

They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.

Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.

The magic formula is there is no magic formula.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

When you go home, tell them of us and say, for their tomorrow we gave our today.

O.K., we had women's lib in the '60s, the women fought for their roles, they're out there in the work force. Now let's talk about how they're dealing with things as human beings.

Silence is the Mother of Truth, for the silent man was ever to be trusted, while the man ever ready with speech was never taken seriously.

Wisdom is a solid and entire building, of which every piece keeps its place and bears its mark.

Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves. The reality is that my movies all have made money.

We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order.