Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of 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.

Why do you even have jewelry?" she asked. "You don't wear any." "It seems I acquired it for you.

In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

My wife asks me, when I get home from auditions, if they asked how tall I am. And if I say "Yes," then she says, "Okay, you didn't get that job."

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

I can only fight back in a way that I feel like I'm talented.

Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.

Art is the body's pronunciation of the soul.

Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.