If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.

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.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.

I'm just afraid somebody's going to stab me one day and think that my power is real and they expect me to start healing.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Any realistic vision of change must be based on the notion of empowerment of people.

I'm pretty much a realist. There's a certain age you get to when you're not really going to be shown anymore.

When I like something, I love it, but then I'll let it go completely.

A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.