The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

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.

Love is not like Ice, that melts but the foundation of Respect, Love and Care

Perfection exists only in your own mind. What you find to be perfect, is not necessarily perfect for someone else.

If loving the Lord is wrong then I never wanna be right.

The sign for which I forge an image has no value if it doesn't harmonize with other signs, which I must determine in the course of my invention and which are completely peculiar to it.

It is silence that most needs an answering -- when I can no longer speak, hear me.

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

Get up early in the morning before everybody has breathed up all the good air.

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.