To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

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.

The home is the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose, and that is to support the ultimate career.

People who take a long view of their lives and careers always seem to make much better decisions about their time and activities than people who give very little thought to the future.

A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

To defeat ISIS and let Iran get nuclear weapons would be to win the battle and lose the war.

Don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm not even breaking. You're not worth the time that this is taking.

Do not breathe simply to exist.

Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.

Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois.