if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.

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.

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

I had a vision of what it would look like if like seventy people at the same time went nuts and sprayed water everywhere.

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.

Your body has to be in top condition. Your Chess deteriorates as your body does. You can't separate body from mind

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

The law is the public conscience.