If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

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.

If asked how much money one requires in life, the answer should be so much as to maintain the parents lifestyle growing the way it has been as long as they are alive.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Incredulity is not wisdom.

You can go to hell -- I'm going to Texas.

If we take a survey of the greatest actions...in the world...we shall find the authors of them all to have been persons whose Brains had been shaken out of their natural position.

If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

Everything starts and finishes with the soldier.

Even when there’s a straight path in front of us, we, unfortunately, and foolishly, turn right~ around and it’s after that we realize it.