Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

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 destinies of all followers lie in the hands of their leaders.

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne.

It is all very well planning what you will do in six months, what you will do in a year, but it’s no good at all if you don’t have a plan for tomorrow.

Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

Once you call something a story, it's set in stone. It has a beginning, a middle, and an end that can't be transformed, because by definition, if you do that, it's not the same story anymore

All the professors in all the religious colleges in this country rolled into one, would not equal Charles Darwin.

We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.

Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.