“If you can’t fail, it doesn’t count.”

“if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”

“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”

““Good luck to you, too, sir.”
“I make it a point not to know the lady,” said Cletus. “I can’t afford to count on her.””

“This is nothing but a coup d’etat. It’s a dictatorship motion. They are telling everybody in the last election their vote doesn’t count.”

“Pete is clearly mildly perturbed by this, as so he should be: his faith doesn’t have much room for sanguinary magic, unless you count holy communion.”

“An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”

“You don’t quench ambition by feeding it any more than you quench a fire the same way,” said Cletus. “To an ambitious man, what he already has is nothing. It’s what he doesn’t have that counts.”

“What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.”

“Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.”