Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches.

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.

The vicious circle of life is employment

Worry wasn’t an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed—and it worried him.

There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.

You might be a redneck if on your first date you had to ask your Dad to borrow the keys to the tractor.

The idea of transformation - playing something I'm not - is the bit I enjoy most about acting.

A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone.

I don't count my situps. I only start counting once it starts hurting.

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

If it's a story that I feel is exciting and necessary, those are really motivating factors for me.

Mark (McGwire) is the man.