For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

I think that anybody that smiles automatically looks better.

I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.

You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.

It's always refreshing to step into another time.

Blessings come in disguise. And challenges can be a blessing.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

I would say chemistry between two people is very powerful. You have to fight to keep it, but if you don't have it, you can't manufacture it.

Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free.

Black wines have become the rage over the last 20 years. I prefer our wines to be red.

It's hard being visible, so I've made myself invisible.

Servants, when their lords no longer sway, Their minds no more to righteous courses bend.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

Life is something like a remarkable, exciting puzzle. It comes piece by piece in packages marked days.

Gone for a while Hoping, always, to return If you will let me

I think conditions on the ground determine what you need in a particular area.

Why should a city be mandated to do something by the federal government or state government without the money to do it?

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.