I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

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.

You never oughta drink water when it ain't runnin'.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.