I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily

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.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

The increasingly thoughtful child can see the whole horribly upset world and would be understandably totally bewildered and deeply troubled by it

Life, time and nature are the three greatest gifts to mankind.

Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free.

But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

You gotta live it to feel it, you didn't you wouldn't get it.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

As soon as you willfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace.

If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.