Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

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.

A sequence of random events isn't really random at all. It's just made to look that way so it will ensnare the unwary.

A good reader has the power to move the world.

When you reframe problems as projects or opportunities, they will cease to bother you and begin to stimulate you.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

. . . the world is filled with the kind of customers who deserve the care and attention I advocate, and I'd be willing to jump through hoops to win and keep them.

Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.

If you are having a tough time today, push past those boundaries, because by challenging your fears today will become the strength you feel tomorrow... DO WHAT YOU FEAR, DON'T FEAR WHAT YOU DO.

so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction.

You're just always looking for something new. That's why a lot of people bounce between TV and movies. You have the ability to try something else.

I've been focused for a long time. I've given my life to do music. I've sacrificed everything.