The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end.

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.

I will not cease to walk in the direction towards my purpose, even if it means constantly walking on a bumpy road.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

People sometimes attribute my success to my genius; all the genius I know anything about is hard work.

It doesn't matter how many they kill," I told him. "And it's not awesome-it's wrong." "Then why do you talk about them all the time?" asked Max. "Because wrong is interesting.

I am not primarily an entrepreneurial businessman. I'm primarily a playboy philosopher.

Life is a series of random collisions.

Do less than you ever thought it was possible to do.

Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.

Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it.