Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."

I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.

Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.

Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain.

Lisa cried until there was nothing left to cry about.

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them?

I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

Mia: I can't do this, I'm a girl. Gym Teacher Harbula: What am I? A duck?

If you have many desires your life will be interesting.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

Michelle Tafoya - best NFL sideline reporter - period. She is always prepared and professional.

I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh, so when you try to murder me with bullets to the head this is why you can't kill me niggaz, I'm already dead.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

And yet today, half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by policies of slavery