Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think 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.

When a man's willing and eager God joins in.

Never turn down a job because you think it's too small you never know where it may lead.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

Leo Hurwicz is the father of mechanism design theory and has inspired much of my work, and Roger Myerson is an old friend and collaborator and a tremendous economist.

I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Transform yourself. It is not the opponent that will change, or the Frisbee. They will change in relation to your change. You must change.

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

The future is like the moon. You never expect to go there, or think about what it might be like.

I always love depth. I like looking through windows, through frames, through spaces into other spaces.