We must get over wanting to be needed.

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.

To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism.

Even God forgives stupidity. So many married people, heaven would be a ghost town otherwise.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

We flew throughout the summer and fall and the start of winter. At first the whiteness gave way to the green of summer, and then gold covered the fields and forests, and then the whiteness again.

It's hard to understand how you arrive at a design. It's far too complicated to get any overall picture of.

They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

We have become blind to the alternatives to violence.