The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary.

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.

He sat staring before him, seeing nothing but a long line of Mortimers, inexhaustable and prolific to the end of time.

You are being discipled by something.

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry

I'm a lightweight easy to fall easy to break With every move my whole world shakes Keep me from falling apart

Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?

People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.