We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading.

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.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.

The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead.

Your waking adult life is going to be spent in what you do professionally, so you'd better like the journey and not just aim for the destination.

Coco Chanel said take one thing off. I always said put another one on.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

The American flag has not been planted on foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake.