All joy... emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

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.

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

These days, I spend more time thanking God for His daily blessings than I do asking Him for more. The spirit of gratitude is quite a great feeling.

I belong to the divine source from which I originated.

and now i am back in the grey world where it tastes like plastic, the monotony is buzzing through my jaws and the boredom is pulling my hair.

First of all, with Mitt Romney, I was saying to the Mormons - the Mormons are very smart people.

I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.

Every country should have a strong literary tradition of its own at the center, but it should also have an interest in other countries.

He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.