Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

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 character was created by you, if you kill yourself you kill the character, it happen because you done it... you don't realise it!

...you need to travel to see the ocean - I don't need the ocean - I have the sky...

When the Christian faith becomes defined by who we are and what we do and not by who Christ is and what he did for us, we miss the gospel - and we, ironically, become more disobedient.

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

Toil is no source of shame; idleness is shame.

I watch fights and I often feel morally compromised by it. I feel like I'm morally culpable for what's occurring because I'm the spectator and ultimately footing the bill for the spectacle.

Yet for better or worse we love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan.

Let's respect the dignity of women to make their own decisions about the size and timing of their families.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.