Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

Do right and risk the consequences.

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

The richest man is he who lives simply but has an abundance of love and kindness to give away.

In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

I communicate mostly via e-mail and receive hundreds of e-mails a day.

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.

Young children are such nasty little beasts!

If you must choose between loving someone and acting so that they feel loved, always choose to love them.

I coach hockey players—some of them just happen to be girls. When I’m coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can’t tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.