Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

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.

If I have to 'catch' a man to get a husband, I don't want one.

You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.

... I could not bank on the phlegmatic Chinese

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking it's passage for some reason.

Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.

In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel.

God is a placebo for your own mortality.