You can't keep a squirrel on the ground.

I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over.

Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.

I began to understand that all Texas is an eternal synthesis of past and present, superimposed one upon the other. It produces a feeling of being in two places at once.

At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.

We might not be able to change the entire world but we can surely leave a mark by positively touching people's lives one at a time.

Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.

When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers.

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

Speaking is half his that speaks, and half his that hears.

First of all, all writing includes some part of the self. The relationship of the self and the other exists in writing, whether autobiographical or novel. There is a self and an other.

We're teachers, and we have a commitment." "Commitment to what-to live and die in this hellhole, when we can leave and live like other people?

I ask that all Americans demonstrate in their personal and public lives... the high ethical standards that are essential to good character and to the continued success of our Nation.