It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it.

This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven.

Don’t worry about what people think, because once it’s all over the people who love you will make you what they want you to be, and the people who don’t love you will, too.

I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.

Momma kept a garden, which sounds romantic to people who have never held a hoe

This is home and home is not something you remember, it is something you see every day and every moment.

I made some friends for life, the way I usually make them. Any jackass can be pleasant company, but if people help you when you're at your worst, that's a friend.

You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

You know, I'm a physician. I like to diagnose things. And, you know, I've diagnosed some pretty, pretty significant issues that I think a lot of people resonate with.

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

This European and really pro-Russian nationalism is seeping into America. It's very disturbing.

Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

Happiness is a way of praying.

They'd been standing like that for thirty seconds of forever.