You can always tell the Catholic schools by the length of the cheerleaders' skirts.

The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

Help one kid at a time. He'll maybe go back and help a few more.

The nicest thing about coaching is that one day you feel like you can play handball against a curb, and on other days you feel like you can fly to the moon.

Hate your next-door neighbor, but don't forget to say grace.

I belong to my beloved, and my beloved is mine.

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

A team should be an extension of a coach's personality. My teams are arrogant and obnoxious.

I will never understand why you Humans weren’t designed to recycle your body’s water after filtering waste. It’s just so much more efficient.

Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?

The best gardener is a baby killer. Baby insects are much easier to kill than adults, and haven't yet developed the big mouths and voracious appetite of the adolescent.

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

Nobody ever told you that being a mother is all about making what seemed like thousands of tiny decisions.

To run a successful business, you have to be tough.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.