Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence.

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, 'What's in it for me?'

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Bjorn Borg looks like a hunchbacked, jut-bottomed version of Lizabeth Scott, impersonating a bearded Apache princess.

In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice

I want to go where I can be of the most service to the general enterprise.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

Why would you want to stay manager and be second-guessed by me when you can come up into the front-office and be one of the second-guessers?

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

A woman is essentially a vessel made to be filled.

I think that the people who are the loudest about wanting to change you are the people with the least amount of vision and creativity.

I don't believe in saturation. We're thinking and talking worldwide.

Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us.