“One can do anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided with a passionate and gifted teacher.”

— Pat Conroy, Beach Music (1995)

About Pat Conroy

1945 – 2016

American novelist, author of "The Prince of Tides".

“Bad teachers do not touch me; the great ones never leave me.”

“Always believe in things and people that bring you pleasure.”

“I've never had anybody's approval, so I've learned to live without it.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“Why, what is weeping and sighing? A judgement. What is misfortune? A judgement.”

“For God made all mankind to be happy, to be serene.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“Remember that all is opinion.”