If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way.

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.

If Christ be anything, He must be everything.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond to its endangerment with passion.

I love acting. I love performing.

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn’t it?

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.