It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.

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.

I couldn't write—or wouldn't write, at any rate—unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa. My first novel, Middlepost, is a fictional account of that journey.

When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the rapid growth of obesity in America.

I pressed down the mental accelerator. The old lemon throbbed fiercely. I got an idea.

The soul is strong that trusts in goodness.