You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.

Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be.

Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start too young to learn how to be careful.

A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

One day you’re a college graduate, in love with Mr. Right and looking for a job. The next day, your Rambo.”“Your timeline is off. And can we lose the Rambo part?

We think our fathers fools so wise we grow Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

What people think of you is none of your business.

The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.

We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible.

The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people.

Ideas get substance and value not by being discussed but by being lived.

to speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.

For like to like, the proverb saith.