You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger

What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

Home is where my horse is.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.

The holy faith is the strong force.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.

Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.

Animals are less alone with roaring than we are with all these words.

There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.