"To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism."

“As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“Vocabulary enables us to interpret and to express. If you have a limited vocabulary, you will also have a limited vision and a limited future.”

“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.”

“I am the product of the sustained indignation of a branded grandfather, the militant protest of my grandmother, the disciplined resentment of my father and mother, and the power of the mass action of the church.”

“I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.”

“There are always consequences to actions that you take. There are consequences to inaction. And thinking through, asking the questions, "Well, then what happens? What comes next?" is critically important.”

Source : Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 26, 2015.

“In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.”

“It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies, you are really getting some place.”