Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?

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.

Wisdom is more faithful than a woman, and knowledge is more faithful than a friend.Folly is more oppressive than a tyrant, and evil more overwhelming than fury.

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

I am comfortable playing the fool, I think.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

I have sort of a love/hate relationship with LA. I wouldn't say that I love living there, but it's the place where I do the things I love.

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

Growing up, my idols were Lucky Luke and Jolly Jumper. And Scottie Pippen.

It is a great deal easier for a man to find a pedigree to fit his virtues than virtues to fit his pedigree.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.