The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.

The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.