A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

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.

Those vibrations that we created have indeed fall upon us. Only those acts that were done in the ignorant (Self unawareness) state, that has given us reactions.

The kind of life you live is not only determined by the level of education you attained. It's defined by the kind of love you give to God in whom you believe!

There was something about her playing... a knowledge of darkness in the most extreme form.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

Second, if you're the boss, just because they don't ask doesn't mean your employees don't have needs.

To have a certain new eight-and-a-hal f-minute-old light from the sun-to feel it physically, almost as we taste things-this is where you can work with light like that.

Better to be the cat gazing coolly down from a high wall, its expression inscrutable. The cat that shunned petting, that needed no one. Why couldn't she be that cat?

I saw that my image was changing or fading. One of the reasons for taking a break from clubs was to be missed-not forgotten.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently.