Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are.

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 didn't belong in this world anymore. It's not that I wanted to be dead, I just felt like I should be.

Forgive me, joy, if I blasphemed youbefore I learned to love.

ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome.

To feel envy is human, to savour schadenfreude is devilish

In no way can words convey the nagual. But they open up the possibility. They allow an admission on the island of the tonal.

Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.

It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter

That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.