God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.

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.

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Opportunities present themselves only to the patient, man and beast, and only they take advantage of those opportunities.

Your environment is a social phenomenon that can bolster confidence in you to run your business

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.

The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

Marry Gentry Swallowing Darkness (Laurell K. Hamilton):Pick any fairy tale that’s based on older stories, and the heroine of the piece has a miserable, dangerous, nightmarish time of it.

Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.