God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created.

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 very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

Men cannot conceive of a state of things so fair that it cannot be realized.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

Israel is not dangerous on one hand, but on the other hand it is dangerous. Human life is just dangerous, in general.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

Love is only one of many passions.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

I think it is having answers and not simply anger, and providing solutions that people believe will change their lives in a radical way but do it in a way that's sensible.