Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.

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.

People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.

If the hammer and the shuttle could move themselves, slavery would be unnecessary.

Gold to airy thinness beat.

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

A career in the theatre demands so much commitment.

No more religion anymore. No more who's a Moslem and who's a Protestant.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

The greatest failure in life is being successful in the wrong assignment.

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.