Magnolia leadership isn't a given. Not forever. You have to earn your spot.

[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.

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

Swift waters parted by the jagged rocks are joined at river's end. / 瀬をはやみ 岩にせかるる 滝川の われても末に あはむとぞ思ふ

Thought leadership is by nature evolutionary, in that it must always be part of an ever-evolving flow.

I understand that that's the theory of the case for [Donald] Trump supporters and it's what Donald Trump says, and it's possible that that is actually the case.

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already has a house in the woods.

It's better to play to the host as though in a real conversation and let the audience listen in- which they are.

All exiles carry a map within them that points the way homeward.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Better we raise our skill than lower the climb

After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.