According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

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.

I left home at 14 and I have friends who joined the navy and the army performing troops at 9. I know people [like that]. It's a very straightforward character.

We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather than approximately right

So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course!

We're all equal before a wave.

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

It bothers me when I don't score.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

It was violent, it was brutal, and it got down right uglyyy!

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.