Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

It [Bach's cello suites] is like a great diamond, " said [Mischa] Maisky in a thick Russian accent, "with so many different cuts that reflect light in so many different ways.

For men, the answer was always the same and never farther away than the nearest sword. For a woman, a mother, the way was stonier and harder to know.

The God you worship will shape the values you hold, and the values you hold will shape the lifestyle that you choose.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold, moist-palmed, mouth-breathing bummer.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

Quote of the day: The most difficult journeys often take us where we were meant to go... By: Nicholas Sparks