Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.

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.

See yourself in a mirror, you are a human first than anything else.

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Change is wonderful, and necessary.

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.

He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.