I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

All right, we need a way to get inot the palace. Any ideas?""Ask nicely? Charge in? Fly? Wait, do you mean reasonable ones?

Stay with me?” His fingers wound into my hair, and his arm tightened around me. “Always.

When things come to the worse they generally mend.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

When you have 4,000 people killed in Chicago by guns, from the beginning of the presidency of Barack Obama, his hometown, you have to have stop-and-frisk.

Bigger the risk, bigger the reward. But the higher the climb the harder the fall.

I respect orders but I respect myself too and I do not obey foolish rules made especially to humiliate me.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

I feel that there's hardly any irony in my work; if there's anything, there'll be sincerity, which people sometimes find hard to deal with.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.