Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

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.

If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.

If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same.

Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.

Africa is crying out for entrepreneurial leaders & for leaders who are entrepreneurial.

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.