There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

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.

When it's all over and the dust from our Ancestors bodies and our own settle from the four winds only then will we see that we were here!

A butterfly has landed on a patch of milk parsley. Wings held vertically so it’s not going anywhere - for the time being. Once he would have leant across and seized it. Now he’ll let it fly.

All fiction boils down to two plots: Either a stranger comes to town or someone goes on a trip.

Apostles go into new territory and establish God’s kingdom.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.

My character on 'The Good Wife' is a smaller character, and his story arcs are typically season-long, unless it's a big episode for him. His transitions take place over many, many hours.

Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

I was always an outsider, proud of being an outsider. I always reveled in the outsiders.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.