And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

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.

A parents wishes for their children shouldn't be to be as good as them but to surpass their own abilities and hopefully lead to a better world.

Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.

Imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Half the work that is done in the world is to make things appear what they are not.

Stop telling it like it is and start telling it like you WANT it to be!

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.

I keep the pornographic stuff in a bus station locker.

No matter how bad you may feel, get up, show up, dress up, and never, ever give up.