The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions survive without love or home, almost none in silence; the opposite of silence leads quickly to narrative, and the sound of story is the dominant sound of our lives, from the small accounts of our day's events to the vast incommunicable constructs of psychopaths.
Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed
The only thing more destructive than a tornado is a family.
Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.
At first, it must be remembered, that [women] can never accomplish anything until they put womanhood ahead of wifehood, and make motherhood the highest office on the social scale.
Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.
In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands. . . it lies in his power to create them. . .
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.