We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties.

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.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

In a way there's only a fine shade of difference between the healthy and the deranged.

For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.

He is too illiterate, unread, unlearned for his station and reputation.

That's the way women do. The frown. They want to give you the attitude to approach them back, by giving you a negative vibe.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers.

There is but one answer to terrorism and it is best delivered with a Winchester rifle.