For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense.

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.

The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day.

All who hear are called. All who are called are able.

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

Take my will and make it Thine It shall be no longer mine Take my heart it is Thine own It shall be Thy royal throne.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

Anytime you have any opportunity to be with the national team it's an honor and a challenge, and it is something I am looking forward to.

There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.

I used to think that I was stupid, and then I met philosophers.