Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

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.

Pro and con are opposites, that fact is clearly seen. If progress means to move forward, then what does congress mean?

Think not because no man sees such things will remain unseen.

Sometimes it lasts in love, But sometimes it hurts instead.

Fashion is not frivolous.

I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.

Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

I have very good knife skills. I learned to butcher on my second job - I was 18 years old. Every other day we would break down six legs of veal.