When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy.

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.

You do not have to be so serious about everything and everyone. Trust yourself. Trust your own guidance and do not take everyone's 'interesting opinions' so personally.

Question who is the doer. Is it the mind or the Self?

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

The only identification that would be inscribed on any cat's collar would be "This is the cat's cat."

I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

I just want to be in the best shape I can be. Not to stand on that start line and say: 'Oh my God, I have this injury and that injury.' I just want to be able to go out and race.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved.