About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.

We are going to have that thing that everyone talks about, that indescribable, indefinable thing that everybody wants to find...here's to endless stargazing.

I will teach my son, that his desire to be great doesn't depend on those unfortunate enough to ignore their own.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

Gas tax holiday is a classic Washington gimmick.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices.

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.

For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.