Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done.

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 you can believe that you can do it, the whole universe will conspire to help you.

Joblessness opens the door for greater opportunities

The sea never dries for it has so many friends.

For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.

It's not the strongest, but the most adaptable that survive.

What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.

There is such a thing as bad publicity.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.