Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

The most powerful words in English are, 'Tell me a story.'

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word.

I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.

Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear.

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

It's going to be years and years before most people realize how greatly he contributed to American music.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

Just like the moon is fully illuminated when facing the sun, so are believers who fully turn themselves to face the Prophet ﷺ

I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

I have been blind expecting everything to stay the same.