You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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.

I'm accustomed to reading Georgian and Victorian letters and sometimes you simply know in your gut that a blithe sentence is covering up a deeper emotion.

If you think that your hardest problem is what color shoes to wear.You should get out more!

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

We shall never know how many acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of appearing not sufficiently progressive.

Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.

There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.

Anybody over 40 is an older person. You better give them some respect.

People think they're gonna make a living off poetry. Ten years ago, maybe a couple of people did. Right now, no one, I don't think.

Teaching literature is impossible; that is why it is difficult.

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.