There is no use saying you chose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up.

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.

At any given point, the chain of a stagnant life can be completely broken, but not with the same mental attitude that placed one in it.

You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.

Fear is not negative. We should overcome all our fears and this in turn would make us stronger. As soon as we overcome our fears we can face any challenge.

I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life.

Monsanto can do anything they want to you, and put anything they want into your foods. There's nothing you can do about it.

As much as everything can seem to be about patterns in your self and others, within the drama of all that, it's really all about knowing.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

I shall not let a sorrow die Until I find the heart of it, Nor let a wordless joy go by Until it talks to me a bit.

I've always found that working through ideas in written form really changes the thinking.