Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

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 are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

Scriptures may have grains of historical truth within them, but there is also ample hyperbole, speculation and mythology.

If people are not in the process of production, they don’t deserve anything.

Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.

I refuse to make uninspired music.

Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.