Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table.

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.

Taste is the most unexplored sense

Cool is not an attitude - It's a state of mind

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

For appearances. Now there's a lovely thing to die for.

Surrender creates equanimity and bliss because you release yourself from any attachment to the results.

Freedom is a man's natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.

We do not think and talk about what we see; we see what we are able to think and talk about.

Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword.

Whatever age you think I am, you’re probably right.