Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

You are what you are. It is my opinion that trouble in the world comes from people who do not know what they are, and pretend to be something they're not.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?