The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

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.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

The mind is created when the universal consciousness conforms to societal consciousness.

I can feel myself slipping away. Slowly leaving who and what I am behind. - Dylan

He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning.

There is no Love Failure but for the Broken Heart.

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.