Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

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.

Time ripens all things

If your dreams are so simple and easy to attain, why don’t you walk straight to them and take them?

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

In the temporary illumination of the headlights, the insects were scribbling out messages from God that we couldn't get.

I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.

One thing in any case is certain: man is neither the oldest nor the most constant problem that has been posed for human knowledge.

The truest politeness comes of sincerity.

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain