Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

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.

A string of thoughts run through my head like a song I can't get rid of, over and over in the same order: I am broken. I am a fraud. I am impossible to love.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

But all liberals only have empathy for the exact same victims - always the ones that are represented by powerful liberal interest groups.

I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

I tell my assistant “I'm busy! unless it's Jesus or Taylor (Swift) don't bother me”

When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner.

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.