A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.

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.

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear.

Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner.

I would want to be fully informed before advising the president.

The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

I am proud of Hillary Clinton because she has been and is a great history maker - in everything she has done.

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.