I like pork chops and country ham, creamed potatoes, stuff like that. Redeye gravy. It comes from ham, bacon, stuff like that. It's the grease that you fry it in. I eat a lot of Jell-O. Fruit Jell-O.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

You've got to follow that dream, wherever that dream may lead.

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

I am not the King. Jesus Christ is the King. I’m just an entertainer.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

There is no joy greater than the triumph of living.

...you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!...

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.

I think Id like to be able to heal peoples pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

No one should be posing for duck-lipped selfies with the plaque of the dead. That wouldn't be right.

Does the Lord intend to make man happy? Sure... but it's a byproduct, not a prime product.

I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle.

If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.