Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.

A faint smell of lilac filled the air. There was always lilac in this part of town. Where there were grandmothers, there was always lilac.

But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.

Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.

In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

Now it's time to focus on basics for people in our neighborhoods... and real ethics reform at City Hall.

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.

Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.

The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Almost everyone in politics nowadays has at least one conflict of interest.

In show business, if you make a mistake, you can do it over again.

I put a basketball in front of George Clooney's door and sprayed it with supermodel perfume to lure him out.

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.

I'm more interested in a world that works than what sells.

The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.