Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is

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.

...I know there's no such thing as forever. So what can we be, in the now?

You take what the guy gives you. If there's nothin' there, you handle it. No problem.

Well I am always interested my people's right. But I will push myself to a revolution without arms.

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man.

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

Nothing can be further than the truth.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.

I loved being pregnant. I felt unapologetically curvy, sexy, and intensely feminine. After giving birth I joined the ranks of millions of new mothers when I moaned, 'Why do I still look pregnant?'