When you're down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

I am hear to say I love you.I am hear to say I feel you.I am hear to say I care for you.I am hear to say, I really do.

To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Parents must get across the idea that "I love you always, but sometimes I do not love your behavior."

We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.

no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.