Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.

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.

There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it

The Finance Ministry can bring about real social change.

Equanimity is the gem in virtue's chaplet, and St. Sweetness the loveliest in her calendar.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.

When you grow up with a name like Brad Thor, people expect you to be 6-foot-4 and a pile of muscles.

For far too long, America has been without a comprehensive energy plan, and today consumers are paying the price - literally - at the pump and in their heating bills.

I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind.

Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.