If you thirst you may drink.

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.

Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!

I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I dont take myself too seriously.

Nirvana is very funny. It's not sincere particularly. It's rather frivolous, actually.

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

I think that [Barack] Obama was elected because young people are starting to get interested in their country and I think that's a very healthy thing.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

It was probably a mistake to allow gold to rise so high.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.