This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle.

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.

Great people don’t only know what to say

You are the sculptor of your success. Chisel yourself into excellence.

If someone tells you that you can't do it, then prove to yourself that you can. You don't need somebody else's word for it, you just need yours.

The United States, like any great power, is always going to have an intelligence operation, and some electronic surveillance is obligatory in the modern world.

The trouble with advice is that it's usually something you don't want to hear.

I like fighting because it's honest.

You know everyone loves to be the villain.

I don't want to write the thing that I am a consumer of when I'm unconscious. I want to write the thing that makes me contend with the thing that I've been consuming unconsciously.

The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.