When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever.

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.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

If you cannot forgive others, how can you forgive yourself?

I might have had too many friends in my twenties. I probably said yes too much, and then I had to learn how to say no. How to get away in order to work on stuff.

I'm organised in some ways, but not in others.

Everyone is going to die. Aren't you interested in what's going to happen?

Well, I always hope that I'm a role model.

It is not wise to give something old and powerful something they care about. And I am very old.

Being fat worked, and I think that was what was confusing for me for a long time in my career.

I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.