Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

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 think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

Taking a leap of faith is better than taking a leap of doubt.

Thank you, Jesus, for blindness that every once in a great while allows one of us to hit the target.

A single act of courage is often the tipping point for extraordinary change.

In detective stories . . . I alternately identify myself with the murderer and the huntsman-detective, but . . . there are those to which this vicarious outlet is too mild.

Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be.

Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.

He who honestly instructs reverences God.