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.

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

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.

I stared you chew down your Swedish meatballs. I hope you could see how you chewed my heart then spit it out

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs.

Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.

I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to be done. But you don't have to be alone for it. You should have come to me. I understand.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.