[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

...he went off to Paris. Actually, I don't know for sure that Paris is where he ended up.

You have to face the very thing you fear.--tdf

One part of my consciousness serves only one realm.

Man is most free when he is most guided.

But nobody ever tells you in advance when you should concentrate on the good times-that's why you're supposed to do it every day.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world

Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense

I definitely invented the everything bagel. There's no doubt. It's undeniable truth. It's one of those things that's 100% true, 50% of the time.

Simplicity is the key.

May it make your sorrow Easier for you to bear Knowing there are others Who understand and care.