If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger

What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

Home is where my horse is.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.

Any mind that lacks the spirit of gratitude knows nothing about the feeling of happiness.

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

In countries where associations are free, secret societies are unknown. In America there are factions, but no conspiracies.

God is not a person. God does not have a history. God does not have a future. God is beyond definition. We can say that your perception of this world is God.

And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire.

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.

A film is the reflection of the soul of its creator.

Time is the herald of truth.

He used to believe good things happened in this kind of weather.