God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

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.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

No truth appears to me more evident than that beasts are endowed with thought and reason as well as men.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

Goals are new, forward-moving objectives. They magnetize you towards them.

I'm 31 years old and I want to be part of a championship team before my career is over.

My Dear Reader Chum, a very hearty hello to you. What an honour and privilege it is to have you perusing my written word.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

I was conscious of the fact that it could be to my disadvantage to marry a white guy - that some folks would hold that against me.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.