The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

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.

If Life was like a movie, then I'd replay it again and again to relive my happiest memories.

You cannot fully wrap your mind around God, so better to fully wrap God around your mind.

To be wealthy, powerful or famous does mot matter to me. Starting a social good ripple that will turn to an ocean wave matters to me.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.

If you're paralyzing your face in your 20s and 30s, you're not exercising the muscles that give it strength. My feeling is, laugh, cry, move your face.

We're just as screwed up as you.

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

Don’t you two girls have something better to do, like pick out toe lint? (Acheron)

To really enjoy pleasures, you must know how to leave them.