Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.

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 the great treasures of life are hidden in a book.

The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation.

My job is designing shoes. It's work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.

I came to L.A. to work and become a better actress, not to be a star.

The one word that makes a good manager - decisiveness.

This ocean circulation, a northbound current that sinks and then moves southbound, tends to go through multi-decadal changes.

Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.