Let's pray that the human race never escapes Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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.

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves.

The world is fast becoming a corporate caliphate

Listen to your heart. It will lead you to a person you are looking for.

If you focus on all that you could have been it will never be... but if you focus on who you are and what's ahead you will always become.

Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

St. Joseph was an ordinary sort of man on whom God relied to do great things. He did exactly what the Lord wanted him to do, in each and every event that went to make up his life.

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

Digital messages and images matter less than their instantaneous delivery; the shock effect always wins out over the consideration of the informational content.

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.