The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.

I'm looking for somekind of permanence, so my mark will linger on the world once I'm gone, in the places where I found joy.." -Page 81

How beautiful to be fully alive in the moment?

The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.

Climate change: It's here. If we don't react, war, pestilence and famine will follow close behind

Jadeja has been sent by N. Srinivasan to play cricket and then go back…to Dhoni.

And it rained a fever. And it rained a silence. And it rained a sacrifice. And it rained a miracle. And it rained sorceries and saturnine eyes of the totem.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.