I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't.

You might be a redneck if...your belt buckle weighs more than three pounds.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

If your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack, you might be a redneck.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

You might be a redneck if going to the bathroom involves shoes and a flashlight.

He wore the evidence of thinking all over his face, open and easy to read. Leah envied him that confidence to show what he was feeling.

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Have hope. Though clouds environs now And gladness hides her face in scorn Put thou the shadow from thy brow- No night but hath its morn.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

There is no right reaction. There is only your reaction.

It is clear that no one will achieve any kind of objective through the force of violence, and that no one will make Spaniards yield to threats of guns, whoever may be holding them

I see myself as more of a policy maker than a political leader.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight.