It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

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.

Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.

You're seventeen now. You can do...absolutely nothing you couldn't already

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.

It's not so much how busy you are, but why you are busy.

I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited.

Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

I turned to speak to God About the world's despair But to make bad matters worse I found God wasn't there.

When an individual (or a group of individuals) is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he is inferior.

The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.