Selfishness has never been admired.

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 got my heart's desire, and there my troubles began.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.

God always has patience.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

If you knew the immensity of what it means to be human, you would not talk about God or Heaven.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Make friendship a fine art.

If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.