The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

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.

Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in!

Mankind's obsession with money and greed has them going down a one way street to their demise.

I didn't want to tell the tree or weed what it was. I wanted it to tell me something and through me express its meaning in nature.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

I like to look put together without trying too hard. I don't want to look as if God's made another rainbow - I prefer muted, autumnal colours, like most fading redheads.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

Let us not mourn that such men died, but rejoice that such men lived.

In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all.

It wasn’t like I made his world better. It was like I was his world. It wasn’t some explosion; it wasn’t fireworks. It was a fire, burning slowly from the inside out.