Thirst was made for water. Inquiry for truth.

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.

Fiction is a house with many stately mansions, but also one in which it is wise, at least sometimes, to swing from the chandeliers.

We can't have an unlimited life, but we can have an unlimited reputation

The many are more incorruptible than the few

You stand the risk of a down turn, because you refused to take risks. So life demands risks.

The pleasure of the soul appears to be found in the journey of discovery, the unfolding revelation of expanded insight and experience.

Every morning I am a beginner.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.

I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it