New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Never regret anything that made you smile.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

It’s when your plans look dead that God’s resurrection power begins to operate in your life in greater measure

Planning eliminates urgency by allowing you to bring your future into the present.

In what might be a motto of those who sought the presidency and lost, Ted Kennedy once said, "Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

I would have taught her a les­son she wouldn't forget!

Lord God, I long to hear Your voice but not just secondhand through teachers, as wonderful and godly as they can be. I long to hear Your voice firsthand.

I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.

I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.