Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading

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.

the same—on this page, or the end of your fingertips—always the same

Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.

I want more awareness of humanity in this world.

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.

Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York

There's no right one way to go through life.

There is satiety in all things, in sleep, and love-making, in the loveliness of singing and the innocent dance.

I am completely tied up with softness, fragility, and the problems of a feminine world.

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

One with more of soul in his face than words on his tongue.