When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.

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.

Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.

Whatever God permits to happen in your life is a gift to you. God has two goals...His Glory and Your Good!

If you want to do something do it!

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.

My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.

I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.