You can't get a cup of tea big 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 don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me.

I told him, though, that he better be good to you. When you came along, I said I'd share you, but I told him to remember that you're my sister. I loved you first.

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

Without Pain, How Could We Know Joy?

I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.

After a long day at work, I want someone to come home, turn on my video and think, "Oh my god, how girls get ready? This is hilarious, I love this, I'm forgetting about all my problems."

The 'fiscal cliff' is a ruse, an invention by the right and the rich, to try and keep their huge tax breaks.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

Long customs are not easily broken; he that attempts to change the course of his own life very often labors in vain; and how shall we do that for others, which we are seldom able to do for ourselves.

For every level there’s another Devil.