The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

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.

Generosity is an act of love.

Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

I had no place to put anything. I would give my sculpture away because I had no place to put it.

We need to stop making what people did to us bigger than what Jesus did for us.

It has often been said there’s so much to be read, you never can cram all those words in your head.

If we can have drones, we can have brown people on TV, and the world won't end! We need to catch up. We are painfully behind.

Love is a lot like a backache. It doesn't show up on x-rays, but you know it's there.

Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.