What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

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.

Suppression or Invalidation of any innate expression of who or what I am is a crime against myself.

Love is the greatest gift, we can give to each other.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Love is the essence of life; love touches all of our work. Love never leaves us. It clings to us, and we cling to it.

My favorite jewelry, it's just what I'm feeling at the time.

A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

I'm not so facile that I can accomplish or find out what I want to know or explore enough of the possibilities and a way of making a painting, say, in just one painting or two paintings.

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

I live on a ranch in Utah for now, but I'm gonna move. I've got another ranch to move to, but its location is a secret. When I get there, I'm gonna plow the road in behind me.