My soul grazes like a lamb on the beauty of an indrawn tide.

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.

He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

If you're not willing to give up everything for Christ, are you willing to be made willing?

Any criticism of someone you love is hard to take.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Put all your eggs in one basket... the handle's going to break. Then all you've got is scrambled eggs.

We're strong; We're very dedicated to what we do; We believe in ourselves; We go for what we want in life; We've made a mark in this world for ourselves.

I mean, what do you do in Las Vegas? You gamble - and you go to strip clubs.

Parenting is a constant struggle between making your kids life better and ruining your own.