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.'

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

The main thing in one's own private world is to try to laugh as much as you cry.

If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

The nice thing about HOPE is that you can give it to someone else, someone who needs it even more than you do, and you will find you have not given yours away at all.

The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.