It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on.

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.

Clovis believed that if a lie was worth telling it was worth telling well.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.

The grass is not always greener on the other side. You learn to appreciate these people.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.