You’re nice to me because you think I’m pretty?” “And because you have brown eyes. I’m a sucker for big old brown eyes.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

You live on - in the hearts of everyone you have touched and nurtured while you were here...Death ends life, not a relationship.

I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

The NBA is becoming a global game.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

Your first obligation as a writer is to tell the truth and to tell a good story.

World has things which full fill man needs, but not greeds.

Hopes are always accompanied by fears, and, in scientific research, the fears are liable to become dominant.

We cuss Congress, and we joke about 'em, but they are all good fellows at heart, and if they wasn't in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.