Be confident small immortals. You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.

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.

I do not believe that I will ever write an adult novel from an animal's point of view unless someday it becomes suddenly appealing to me to make a narrator a mentally ill pet. Never say never.

From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

Man's record upon this wild world is the record of work, and of work alone.

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

One good turn asketh another.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

I have a weird sense of humour. My dad's the same. We love watching 'Monty Python' together.

I refuse to sit on my laurels.