Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief.

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 travel for the great stories now ready tell, and those waiting to be told.

i'm going to bed before either of you come up with another clever idea to get us killed or worse expelled

You see that a handful of times every year where a person that hasn't been playing that well pops up and wins.

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

Checklists are really helpful ways to remind people around how to manage complicated tasks.

You can't have personal investors anymore because it's too expensive, so you have to have corporate investment or a lot of rich people.

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?