I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

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.

Moving is not about forgetting. It's about moving forward and never looking back.

Fear waters the weeds of regret.

When you’re not on your own agenda, you’re prey to the agenda of others.

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

I realized that there was an intellectual content in music, a kind of thinking, that I would never be able to hear.

I think I reach people because I'm with them, not apart from them.

If you don't have a record deal, you've got to be a record company.

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

I still like and admire George W. Bush. I consider him a fundamentally decent person, and I do not believe he or his White House deliberately or consciously sought to deceive the American people.