The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

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 truth has value.

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late but don't have to pay taxes - naturally, no one wants to live any other way.

I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows.

It always surprises me in films that killers seem so gleeful about killing people.

Look at what's happening, how Iran is taunting us. Look at what's going on, look at the world.

For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

Divide each difficulty at hand into as many pieces as possible and as could be required to better solve them.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.