No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?

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.

Never in LIfe will you disappoint yourself if you stay true to you!

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.

He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone.

I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own.

The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo.

O youth whose hope is high, Who dost to Truth aspire, Whether thou live or die, O look not back nor tire.

Everyone can look inside his or her soul and decide what he or she can do to make a world at peace, to end this fighting that goes on every day around the world.