Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.

For the world was changing, and sweetness was gone, and virtue too. Worry had crept on a corroding world, and what was lost- good manners, ease and beauty? Ladies were not ladies anymore, and you couldn't trust a gentleman's word.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.