We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito.

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.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.

When discussing complex systems like brains and other societies, it is easy to oversimplify: I call this Occam's lobotomy.

English country life is more like Chekhov than The Archers or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is sometimes compared.

Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.

If I'm the godfather of [Obamacare], then it gives me the right to kill it.

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.