The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

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 haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

Great people have great values and great ethics.

Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.

Love isn't like a reservoir. You'll never drain it dry. It's much more like a natural spring. The longer and farther it flows, the stronger and deeper and clearer it becomes.

I have to clear my name.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

The truth is I'm a bit old school. For me, it would be hard to put on a Lakers jersey. That's just the way it is.

The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.