Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.

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.

Imagination is a reality.

It’s good to ask questions that make people uncomfortable.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.

Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig.

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself.

I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].

I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me.

I think we should be passionately curious about what we do.