I made friends with a lot of those who could have criticized me in print and who didn't, who praised me instead.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

What is it that binds us to this place as to no other? It is not the well, or the bell, or the stone walls, or the crisp October nights or the memory of dogwoods blooming. Our loyalty is not only to William Richardson Davie though we are proud of what he did 200 years ago today. Nor even to Dean Smith, though we are proud of what he did last March. No, our love for this place is based on the fact that it is as it was meant to be, the University of the people.

I don't think I had a reputation as a hard worker, but inside I was always being eaten up by the pressures.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.