Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

People think they are not satisfied with what they have but in true sense they are not satisfied with what they are.

Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

Sigh like the wind--open your arms, your chest, your heart--and all creatures will hum to you.

Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.

Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.

Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions.

When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.

We all want to be renewed, don't we?

The world is a very big place and there are many wonderful people in with ideas you haven't thought about. Talk to them, find out what they're thinking, so that you can be the best person you can be.

It's kind of a miracle to think that a device in your pocket can play pretty much any song that the world has ever created.