I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

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.

We now have the advantage of a few years more of life, but death is still standing at the end of the road.

I've got to really try and manage my patience out there.

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

Human beings affix themselves to things that are of little or no importance. They affix themselves to the transitory, to things that are impermanent, and in doing so, they get all upset

I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

Our swords are in God's hands, And our faith is in the Lord. Charge!

It you want to be somebody, If you want to go some where, you've got to wake up and pay attention