[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

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.

Hoping is a great Positive emotion and you must HOPE. But remember, you can’t just Hope for Success, you also have to work for it.

I like my whiskey neat and strong just as I like my women. Women who have matured in their minds and bodies

The Christian view is that men were created to be in a certain relationship to God (if we are in that relation to Him, the right relation to one another will follow inevitably).

When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

He is preeminent in creation because He is the Creator. He is preeminent in redemption for He is the Redeemer. He is preeminent in the church because He is the One who gave Himself for the church.

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

I mean, we're always trying to evaluate and tweak things and get better.