A family is one of nature's solubles; it dissolves in time like salt in rainwater.

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.

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me.

A contentious, belligerent Christian isn’t living according to the Spirit but according to the flesh. When we stubbornly insist on our own way and are insensitive to others, peace is not our goal.

I am what "I click" every day. I am what I watch. I am what I refuse or accept. I am not better than you and you are not better than me. I am here to lead by serving and to serve by loving.

It's much easier to tame a wild tiger with your bare hands than to convince someone who believes in something, no matter wrong or right.

Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?

Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

At the end of the day, when we measure our healthcare, it will not be by the diseases cured, but by the diseases prevented.

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.