If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

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.

Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-term shifts taking place in full view of the world.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.

Having a dad in the service was helpful. I was forever meeting new kids, going to new schools, moving to new neighborhoods. I was encouraged when I attended the American School in Germany.

My goal was for acting to become my main income. I would say to myself, 'I'm good enough'. That became my mantra.

If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.

If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.