Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

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.

Awareness seeped in and brought its friends Pain and Agony for a visit.

The end always doesn't justify the means you used to reach there.

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

We swung between madness and suicide ... it was beautiful!

My first Grammy wasn't even in a jazz category, but of course I was really excited. 'Rockit' was the beginning of kind of a new era for the whole hip-hop movement.

Any character you play, you're on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what's good about him.

I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were