Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

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.

One mustn’t justify day-to-day morality with extraordinary circumstances. Otherwise, we would all feel free to rape and murder at the drop of a cat.

Lo, which a greet thing is affeccioun!Men may die of imaginacioun, So depe may impressioun be take.

The reason gold-diggers trivializerelationships is because they do not know love, they only know money.

You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three

Christmas music is usually more concentrated pop music in a way. It's meant to make us feel good, and it's meant to make us like we belong somewhere.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Laughter is life-giving. It makes you breathe.

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.

In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?