Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse.

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.

It is in the moments of silence, that we can be taken to our own world where our real essence longs to be part of

Sometimes it’s about knowing people, all of the time, it’s about knowing God!

How can I seek forgiveness for sins I haven't committed yet?

Husband-hunting. Always a rousing sport. I suppose you go there dressed to kill.""No, indeed. What good is a dead husband?" She smiled airily. "I go dressed to maim only.

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

If you don't stick up for what's yours, and defend what's yours... what are you?

On stage you're free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you'd be arrested.