Families without songs are unhappy families.

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.

Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.

Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!

If he'd cut off his right arm to make her happy, then how much harder could it be to cut out his heart?

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

You can call me a lot of things, but you can't call me complacent!

The Behaviorist cannot find consciousness in the test-tube of his science.

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

Who is Alice?" asked mother. "Alice is somebody that nobody can see," said Frances. "And that is why she does not have a birthday. So I am singing Happy Thursday to her." - Frances the badger

I dedicated all the time I had to it. The 10 hour workout was just what I put in the magazine at the time, but for me it was every waking moment.