Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

God is bigger than people think.