There are some times...when the love for people is strong and warm like a sorrow.

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about.

It sometimes happens that what you feel is not returned for one reason or another-but that does not make your feeling less valuable and good.

I can still tend the rabbits, George? I didn't mean no harm, George.

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

The first grave. Now we're getting someplace. Houses and children and graves, that's home, Tom. Those are the things that hold a man down.

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