Dyson and Tolkien were the immediate human causes of my conversion. Is any pleasure on earth as great as a circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

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.

Filling up your soul with the depths of your own thoughts, that's just extraordinarily progressive.

All you have is today. Never mourn for tomorrow that is past and gone. You don’t deserve to starve today of its pleasure and treasure. Feel happy!

Anyone that does not wish or desire to stretch himself will get nowhere in this life. That is just the way life is.

Marriage creates one world for your child. For that alone, two old friends can try to see a peaceful world through the eyes of their angels.

If you are always trying to do something for a cause bigger than you - connected with serving others - then it is hard to be guilty.

Where sanity is there God is.

Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.

You do something annual every year, don't you?

Lou Gerstner knows how to do a deal, and George Bush Sr., less so.

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.