The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.

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.

They're a group called The Spirit-crushers and their leader is known as The Almighty Spirit-crusher.

Rilke said that art can come only out of inner necessity. I write because I must. Or because I cannot not write.

Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.

In each of us there is another whom we do not know.

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.

Age protects love not, but love protects up to a certain degree before age.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

I worry about a society that can remember everything.

The less you are like others, the less others will like you.