It's difficult to get started-when it comes to dealing with an unknown quantity, people are reluctant to trust their own opinion. It helps if two or three people give you a boost.

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.

Do I look stupid?" snarled Uncle Vernon, a bit of fried egg dangling from his bushy mustache.

Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.

Marriage is just like business, only a few succeed, many manage & the REST RESIGN.

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Most of us can agree there is nothing more special, mysterious, mystical, powerful and important than life!

Think hard about it: I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villians. I'm down to Castro and Kim Il Sung.

To mark all that I say in conversation, merely to beget in others, a good opinion of myself, and examine it.

I have a desire to tell stories. And I'm never quite satisfied.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.