We do not see into men’s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge.

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.

In response to a tactless question he once said to me, ‘What do you expect? This lousy neighbourhood gave me the come-on. I couldn’t resist.

- the only difference between a happy ending and a sad ending is where you decide the story ends.

As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

On 16 September 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died.

We are too often double espresso followers of a decaf Sovereign.

Love is just a word untill you and that someone who comes along give it meaning

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

Governmental defense of any theology necessarily weakens the legitimacy of both the government and the theology.

Buddhism helps us to overcome our endless ego grasping mind to open up to something so much more spacious and genuinely meaningful.

The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights.