I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.

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.

Of course I believe in magic. I believe in storytelling.

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.

Where a people prays, there is the church; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

Once upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.

Love, when released into the world, is like an intelligent energy that continues on and on, shaping the world in its own image.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

In the third century after Christ the faith continued to spread.

I am 100% there when I'm doing what I'm doing when I'm onstage and recording. I don't ever want to look back at any moment and say to myself that I felt uncomfortable with who I am.

I think I was born with a suitcase.