How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.
You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions.
Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.
. . . love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
The worst is when someone in your past trumps the person in your present, and you think to yourself: if I'd known this, then maybe I wouldn't have let him go.
I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.
All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.
Without training you will not grow wings.
Great thoughts cannot remain silent. They are born to scream!
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.