It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe 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.

Money Can’t Buy Happiness but It Beats the Hell out of Poverty.

When I turned to look at you, I was afraid to move again—the moment was just too beautiful to be lost.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

You don't develop good teeth by eating mush.

Blood spurted from his nose. Okay, I couldn't help myself. I burst out laughing.

What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

There is no passion that steals into the heart more imperceptibly and covers itself under more disguises than pride.

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.

I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.

History will remember Nelson Mandela as a champion for human dignity and freedom, for peace and reconciliation.