The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

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.

Poetry is the least imposition on silence in a world of chatter.

You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!

The family is the key of Christmas.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Music can be so manipulating - especially in terms of horror. It's such an important part of building the tension.

The e-mails [from WikiLeaks] show that behind closed doors speaking to these international bankers, Hillary Clinton's pledged to destroy the sovereignty of the United States.

I really do think that if you're doing your job right, you're never gonna be what the other actor was, but you can be influenced by his intelligence and his choices.

Perfume is that last and best reserve of the past, the one which when all out tears have run dry, can make us cry again!

Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.