Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

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.

Emma hung up and hugged her pillow tight to her chest. He shouldn't be making her feel this special and desired. He was just a friend. Right, just a friend. She wasn't even fooling herself anymore.

It's not enough, and so limiting, to teach the simplistic value of a designer's material wear. Give children the gift of values that will last far beyond [a] fad's temporal popularity.

Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

I never said, 'MMMmmm, you dirty rat!

At the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, I was ordered to write to the Church ministers.

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

Classless society is the dream of people with no class.