The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.

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.

I'd sold my soul to get out of detention.

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

It's a comfort to always find pasta in the cupboard and garlic and parsley in the garden.

All human beings hunger for appreciation.

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

... the lead is now 6.9 seconds. In fact it's just under 7 seconds

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.