Now, now. Southern ladies don’t French-kiss and tell.

You try spending six months sitting at somebody's bedside, waiting for them to die and then tell me that the happy-ending love story isn't one of God's good gifts.

[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.

He’d lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she’d been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.

The Cinderella story in reverse. I only wish there were ashes in the fireplace so I could order you to sweep them out.

In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

Power is like a house of cards. Leave it alone and it will stand forever. But if you try to build it higher and higher, sooner or later it is bound to collapse.

You live your life proportional to your love for life.

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and follow'd, yet we know That what was worne some twenty yeare agoe, Comes into grace againe.

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

I surround myself with love and look forward to being in love.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

I'm a sarcastic person, and people don't get my humor sometimes