I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

I don't care what the haters and naysayers say. If they make jokes about me, I'll laugh because they'll probably be funny.

Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

I was determined to share my positive approach and not let diabetes stand in the way of enjoying my life.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.

Growing up, I had a very busy social life. It wasn't until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something.

I don't want to spend my life not having good food going into my pie hole. That hole was made for pies.

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.

Read, not to believe, contradict or complement, but to understand.

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

Life has a truth to it, and it's complicated - it's love and it's hatred.

After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.

Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world.

If you are inspiring others to do better, you're successful.

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear