You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don’t enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It’s not the law-abiding citizens, it’s not the person who uses it as a hobby.
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it’s the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people – your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.
Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.
I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.
There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.
It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
I’m not regimented. I don’t diet, and I exercise the way I want to.
Yankees don’t understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
The way I make something out of nothing, I got that from my mama. That’s 100% her.
When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.
