Unadaptability is often a virtue.

I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three hours with no ideas coming to me. But I know one thing. If an idea does come between 9 and 12 I am there ready for it.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of disgust and righteousness.