Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it.

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.

Life doesn't give you much, but for the ones who want to learn, life teaches them how to be strong before they start living their lives instead of just existing in this world.

You're like a band-aid that is slowly ripping off, and I'm still wounded!

Infinity and Always.

His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.

Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.

Ice cubes sell more alcohol for the distilling industry than sexy models in cheesecake poses.