Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!

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.

Marketing is so powerful that it can make even an extremely untalented musician a one-hundred-hits wonder.

You may hold the same feeling even after a long gap, but not trust.

You gotta look out for number one, but don't step in number two!

Maybe the secret to happiness is simplicity.

I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

For me, the voice expresses things that there are just no other ways to express.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

Christianity is merely a system for turning priestesses into handmaidens, queens into concubines, and goddesses into muses.