but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

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.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.

The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.