Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

A pioneer destroys things and calls it civilization.

The cowboy doesn't need an iron horse, but covers his country on one that eats grass and wears hair.

I don't know the difference between a warm color and a cool one.

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

The best-laid plans can fail for the lack of proper execution.

They say family's first, but family is the first to get you hurt

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

Any questions I had about whether a redneck from Oklahoma could become a Brown Classical Philosophy professor ended when I met Tim [Blake Nelson].

Inebriate of air am I, And debauchee of dew, Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.

Nothing in the world is as fearsome as a bloody, battered opponent who will never surrender.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

The idea is to have no idea. Get lost. Get lost in the landscape.