How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that.

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.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Take you example by this thing, / And yield to each his right, / Lest God with such like miserye/ Your wicked minds requite

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking

I've been really surprised about a lot of the negative comments about artisanal pencil sharpening. Like, it really rubs some people the wrong way.

The problem with popularity is that if it gets too popular everybody leaves and goes somewhere else.

I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.