I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, given the opportunity, ever said otherwise than 'I'm from Texas'.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remington, "they sat down with the greatest philosopher on earth - the fire."

The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.