All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

Do right and risk the consequences.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people, " I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.

There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

Well now everything dies baby that's a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back.

No matter which way you turn ... there's nothing but illuison.

A house should look lived in, and I consider it clean as long as I don't stick to it and it doesn't give me cholera.

Just after they exist, all men start travelling; some towards the land of the truth, some towards the land of the stupidity! Most men are on their way to the second land!

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.