The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

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 modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.

Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...

Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.

This is the Hour of Lead- Remembered, if outlived, As freezing persons, recollect the Snow- First-Chill-then Stupor- then the letting go---

I just think its the changes that age brings. You slow down a little bit ... the writers are smart enough to write all those changes that life gives you.

Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

We rule out raising taxes this year.

Every work of art is the child of its time, often it is the mother of our emotions.

He must needs go that the devil drives.