We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it.

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.

All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens.

I certainly think that a Labour Government will have to have effective powers to control the outflow of capital.

I find that the things that really, you know, get us fired up, tend to be things that, for example, things that you talk about tonight, what we see in the news.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.