God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.

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.

Understand one thing very clearly. Because all this: your time, this world, your life in it and all of those opportunities, they have a deadline.

A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to the world.

Hate was such a waste of human resources. So little was accomplished with hate, so much more with love.

The food you eat can be either the safe & most powerful medicine or the slowest poison.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

I remain close to my people. I keep singing with them.

Im not letting my best freind die. been there done that. i got that freakin tshirt

That's why children look so beautiful because they are yet full of hope, full of dreams, and they have not yet known frustration.

Nothing troubles me. I offer no resistance to trouble - therefore it does not stay with me. On your side there is so much trouble. On mine there is no trouble at all. Come to my side.