Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

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.

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

She wasn’t religious. She didn’t believe in heaven or hell, only in ghosts, Ouija boards, tables which rapped and little inept voices speaking plaintively of flowers

As we plant in tears, we shall harvest with joy.

Of all the things I dislike, I hate women worst.

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

I'm not a big movie-goer. I just feel like I'm watching work.

I feel lucky because most of my friends aren't married. So I don't feel that, 'oh, step on it, you're thirty.'

I smoke because I like to get high.

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intel information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time.