You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

You can always trust a dog that likes peanut butter.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.

But I'm not ready to let Winn-Dixie go.

When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.

Heresy, " by the way, simply means "choice." It came to mean "thoughtcrime, " implying it was blasphemy to presume to choose your own belief instead of swallowing what the bishops spoonfed you.

Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my memories aged nought to ten are all bound up together in a mesh of innocence and fun.

One cannot dictate an aphorism to a typist. It would take too long.

The foundation of a disciplined life is integrity and doing what we say we're going to do.

Make sure you don't become the very thing you find yourself fighting against.