He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

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.

Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon.

I know just enough about thermodynamics to understand that if it takes too much fossil-fuel energy to create ethanol, that's a very stupid way to solve an energy problem.

But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.

It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.

If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

It doesnt hurt to repeat here the statement, still rejected by many people in spite of its obviousness, that education is a political act.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.