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.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms

Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

It is my experience that in some areas [my poodle] Charley is more intelligent that I am, but in others he is abysmally ignorant. He can't read, can't drive a car, and has no grasp of mathematics. But in his own field of endeavor, which he is now practicing, the slow, imperial smelling over and anointing on an area, he has no peer. Of course his horizons are limited, but how wide are mine?