If Raymond Chandler came from the South, his name would be Ace Atkins.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

Money can buy you a fine dog, but only love can make him wag his tail.

I admit I was drinking a Guinness... but I did not swallow.

And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians.

Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.

Poly means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

Well, I just said that Jesus and I were both Jewish and that neither of us ever had a job, we never had a home, we never married and we traveled around the countryside irritating people.

I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.

When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.

People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world.

To grow you must not gain something but instead get rid of all the things that have held you back.

Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.

I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.

It is easy to build a philosophy. It doesn't have to run.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.

Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it

Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.