Provocation doesn't make me ill-tempered: it only shows me how ill-tempered I am.

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.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral happiness, and judgmental happiness.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

I did not email any classified material to anyone. There is no classified material.

If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

I say what's on my mind. I go after what I want.

Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a limb.

Grant others the same rights as you claim for yourself.

I am out of humanity's reach.