Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them.

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.

The experiences you get from failures early in life, will carry you for the rest of your life.

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return.

We are living from inside out not from outside in.

If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.

We are at war with men, and most women don't even know it.

Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.

I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

A king may spille, a king may save; A king may make of lorde a knave; And of a knave a lorde also.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.