Success is loving life and daring to live it.

Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication.

If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.