As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

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.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.

The past is remembered as if it were a drama in which the self was the leading player

I couldn't play off people that I don't personally like.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

For some of us life is so fantastic we can't stand it.

In the fields of opportunity it's plowing time again.