Those wishing to be successful in the market can't ignore the boomer numbers, the wealth and spending power they have.

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.

Never call anyone a baboon unless you are sure of your facts.

The Kingdom of God does not come by Observation. It is hidden in the inner dimension.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.

...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.