The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.

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 Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman.

There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love... if it hurts this much.

But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.

For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.

You cannot run away from what’s in your heart.

Creativity is a spiritual issue.

I had a newspaper in Flint, Michigan called the 'Flint Voice,' and so it was a, you know, underground, alternative newspaper that I edited and put out for about ten years.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.