I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them.

I don't trust anyone who doesn't laugh.

You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, "Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down." That's how you get to know yourself.

It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me.

Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.