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I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it’s people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

My mother and I will continue on some level that I haven’t determined yet. I think my mother’s a great character, and I have to say that giving my mother to the world has to be the biggest thrill of my writing career.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I’d be pulling for him.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah’s Ark.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!