The great teachers fill you up with hope and shower you with a thousand reasons to embrace all aspects of life.

I don't believe in happy families.

He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.

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.

Mama always taught her children that words were pretty, but anyone can talk. She said, pay attention to that man or woman who acted, who did, who performed. She taught us to trust in thing we could see, not that we heard.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.