The illusion of confidence is far more important than actually possessing the feeling.

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.

Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

I grew up in east Tennessee, and everybody knew everybody's business.

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance

Music gives wings to the mind and flight to the imagination.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

Dialogue is a lean language in which every word counts.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.