The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

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.

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

What an ugly beast is the ape, and how like us.

The old world told men merely about to live and to die.Today men think about defeating death and resurrection.

All my work comes out of my life.

War is simple, direct, and ruthless.

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

I read the things that scientists have figured out, and apply what they say is beneficial, but at the end of the day I'm the wrong person to get unchallenged nutritional advice from.

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

Perception can be changed

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.