"I’m gone for eight months…If you feel that it’s critical to contact me, that I get involved in your problem, what I want you to do is to lie down. When that feeling goes away, I want you to get up, solve the problem, and then send me an e-mail with the solution."

“For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.”

“We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.”

“What you believe, you receive.”

“He must needes go that the dyvell dryveth.”

“Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life...do that.”

Source : "Congratulations, You’re Not Crazy, You’re an Entrepreneur!" by Katyan Roach, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2015.

“But my deepest and most secret love belongs to the fair-haired and the blue-eyed, the bright children of life, the happy, the charming and the ordinary.”

“We only need to walk or bike ten percent of the time to make a significant change in society. That is just two days of walking, bicycling or taking transit per month for a typical commuter.”

“Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.”

Source : Pat Conroy (2010). “The Lords of Discipline: A Novel”, p.21, Open Road Media