We could live offa the fatta the lan'.

A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his love is the index of his potential contempt and hatred.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

Texas is not a state - it's a state of mind.

When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national, religious, economic, grow and disintegrate, man reaches, stumbles forward, painfully, mistakenly sometimes. Having stepped forward, he may slip back, but only half a step, never the full step back.

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.