For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

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.

Step out today not seeking to be in the spotlight but seeking for a spot to light - be a blessing to someone

You may spend years being somebody to everybody, yet you can't find 60 seconds to be someone to someone else. Find the time today to be somebody's someone.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night, and everything that I do shall be upfull and right.

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.

The genius of America is production; and a large percentage of our productive enterprises are headed by men who have come up from the worker's bench.