Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

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.

It is ironic that even today men are judged by how much they have and women by how they look while both should be judged by how they act.

I don't look at scripts. I just write them.

A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

I don't care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed.

Love forbids you not to love.