The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action.

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 problem is not lack of leadership, the problem is lack of good leadership

Names are the way we humans build relationship, not only with each other but with the living world.

Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.

And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

Thank God for a few free waves.

China can be our partner, but that doesn't mean they can just roll all over us and steal our jobs on an unfair basis.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

If I have to make a tackle then I have already made a mistake.

The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore.