The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

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.

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

I write, as far as I can tell, because writing is a black sheep sibling of prayer, an urgent struggle against a bad connection, intent, hopeful, innocent, never quite good enough.

I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones. No you aren't, he promised. Your one of us.

I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.

I love humility in a woman. It's so rare. With man, of course, it is practically extinct.

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.

Open your eyes, mind and heart to the astonishing miracles of life, to the beauty surrounding you, to the uniqueness of your being, to the wonders you can achieve.

Surrender is the ultimate technique to merge with existence.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.