If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.

There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Each soul is potentially divine.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.