Men often marry their mothers.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.

The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.

When one loses the deep intimate relationship with nature, then temples, mosques and churches become important.

Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.

I was a latchkey kid, so when I saw the 'Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, ' that showed me that there was a different type of lifestyle out there. I was curious about it and amazed about it.

Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?

I learned to appreciate repetition. That's why I can dance. It's how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.

By this curious turn of disposition I have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

Don't get down on yourself that you can't run a 4K or dance all night long at a fun club. Give yourself a break.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.