Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

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.

And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.

Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.

But the moods could be contagious. He didn't need one right now.

The sky was full of stars, and every star an exploding ship.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.

It wasn't aliens that first made us gear up for war; it was our fellow humans.

The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.