You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

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

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

Yes, you should talk," he said. "Sometimes a sad man can talk the sadness right out through his mouth. Sometimes a killin' man can talk the murder right out of his mouth.

Socialism never took root in America.

I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction.