There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

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.

It is not in our power to determine our destiny.

What is fear but darkness

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

The only true dead are those who have been forgotten.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

The scalpel won't make you happy.

He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth. What drivel is this?

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

The meaning in life is not out there but inbetween our ears. In many ways this makes us the lords of creation.