When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

Opportunity is not a rock, it is a bird! You either catch it or you miss it!

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.

My end goal is just to do projects at the end of the day that I'm proud of.

Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

I had my shortcomings - crazy hair, braces, bad skin and all that stuff. I went through it all.

You don't need fancy sneakers to run fast

I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this if they are dieting or not. I think we all would be shocked by it.

I think we live in a world where "the normal," is just a cut that each society creates for itself, but leaves out a number of situations, thoughts, and events as part of what we catalog as normal.