It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

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.

Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes.

Success and greatness in life belongs to those who take responsibility.

We only get what we can deal with."The real voyage of discovery consists...in seeing with new eyes

If the Almighty chose to establish his religion by miracles, he chooses to carry it on by means.

If I were like a lot of other people, then it wouldn't be fun; but since I'm like me, it's okay.

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

Every weekend he'd have me come down to work on Dragnet, which by now was on television as well as radio.

What has happened to the adult human?

I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.