My parents were teachers and they went out of their way to see to it that I had books. We grew up in a home that was full of books. And so I learned to read. I loved to read.

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual.

Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.