Father! Can I box him? Please!

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.

If the rowan's roots are shallow, it bears no crown.

When the going gets tough the tough get going.

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant.

You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.

I think change is good because it teaches you that it's nothing to be frightened of.

The heavy is the root of the light. The tranquil is the ruler of the hasty.

My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale.

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.