The absent are easily refuted.

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 was born to end up alone.

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

And the wind falls silent, and the birds fall silent, and the wild cherry trees no longer shiver and creek.

I received 500,000 discrete bits of information today, of which maybe 25 are important. My job is to make some sense of it.

[Latin] allows you to adore words, take them apart and find out where they came from.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.

Temptations in the life of faith are not accidents; each temptation is part of a plan, a step in the progress of faith.

Aging allows us to drop the baggage. It is only through life experiences that our incredible power can be brought forward in all its glory.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.