The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

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.

A memory can taint your dreams

Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.

I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.

The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave.

We're all in a test. With or without God, we're in a test.

There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.