If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

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.

Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.

The importance of awakening to our evolutionary origins is paramount because irrational ideas about “who we are” fuel our sense of separateness

Love is a letter on pink stationery.

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Time is about the need to control. Let go of control and embrace what happens.

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

Principle #6: Recognition that change and reform are not identical, and that innovation is a devouring conflagration more often than it is a torch of progress.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all, Thou art our great original!