When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

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.

So often our power lies not in ourselves, but in how we help others find their own strength.

Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

There's nothing wrong with wanting someone to save us - or admitting we can't do it all ourselves.

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

Even if people do not know what real kindness is, they nonetheless have it within them.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

Love alone is credible.

[O]ne of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened before.