I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.