Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself.

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.

Slowing down your thoughts on a regular basis is the path to consistent peace of mind.

To live for your dreams, you have to be fearless in life.

He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.

For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

He [Ma's Tooth] was part of her a minute ago but now he's not. Just a thing.

It’s so much easier to walk away than it is to have to explain to someone that you never want to see them again.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.

Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.