You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

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.

Multitasking is actually a hindrance to productivity. Focus on one thing and get it done.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

You can't teach colour from Cézanne, you can only teach it from something like this bubble-gum wrapper.

Any given moment - no matter how casual, how ordinary - is poised, full of gaping life.

We have to have the strongest military by far...

It is the fool who is haunted by fears, dread of dangers, oppression of mind, not the wise man.

The revolution begins at home. If you overthrow yourself again and again, you might earn the right to help overthrow the rest of us.

It's very hard to predict what kind of uses we'd make of assistants that could read and understand all the information the human race has ever generated. It could be really transformational.