To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?

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.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

The poem must resist the intelligenceAlmost successfully.

The stories are not made, they are discovered.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Innate must flow fully, freely, naturally; to, through, and into the educated brain to produce what education calls greatness.

We can never truly understand the people we hate; we can never truly hate the people we understand.

I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

I've always liked the heavier stuff. I've always loved Tool and System of a Down, Korn and Nine Inch Nails.

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.

The acme of humbleness is to forget unfalteringly good deeds of oneself.