Paradise is a state of mind.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdeter

Moving forward requires that one first take a step.

Every day is a lie, he said. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

I love the modern technology now.

I've spent hundreds of hours working over words, and part of me, a large part of me, has a desire to do something else.

I was never part of the crowd.

A poet wants only one small stone on which to carve his life.

In the state of Alabama we have a significant number of illegal aliens that are leaving our state as occurred in Arizona after they got tough on illegal aliens.

Very little happens in my books.

Every sport has its own cast of characters.