Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

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.

As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.

There is no difference between being an artist and being in love.

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

The most relevant misadventure that I had, as a kid, is when I remember being pretty convinced that leprechauns were real and that I was going to catch one.

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist

So now the challenge is to imagine a different world where our wealth is in human relations and the things we do together, and we learn to live in balance with the rest of nature.

Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

I'm proud of myself that I had the courage to experiment with crazy hairstyles and some fashion things.

Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.