We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.

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.

How very wonderful friends the moon, the sea and the night are!

He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.

Thinking like we (always) have is what got us where we are. It is not going to get us where we are going.

It is not easy to tear any event out of the context of the universe in which it occurred without detaching from it some factor that influenced it.

Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.

Work isn't really work for me.

Try to live without something digital - without digital code for about two hours, very hard to do if you're awake.

When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.

I have a big mouth, and over the years, as the eldest of five, I have had a tendency to speak when no one really cared.

I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.