I don’t know why it is that I have always been happier thinking of somewhere I have been or wanted to go, than where I am at the time. I find it difficult to be happy in the present.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what `tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief.

The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life.

Each divorce is the death of a small civilization.