Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

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.

Whether you are a man or woman, make sure that you see the person that you are considering to build a relationship with for who they are, not what you want them to be.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

True love exists. There's nothing more extraordinary than being lost in its trance by completely opening your heart and merging its rare and beautiful energy with another.

Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.

If I give up the viewpoint of action, my perfect nakedness is revealed to me.

The government usually announces it killed a Big Terrorist 5 or 6 different times before they're dead - they're almost like cats.

What I want to know is why in the world the Democratic party leadership is supporting the president's unilateral attack on Iraq?

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

We need to start thinking collectively as a people about what we should be looking at.