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

The words are meaningless except in terms of feeling. Does anyone act as the result of thought or does feeling stimulate action and sometimes thought implement it.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.

I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble.