I've traveled all over the world, but I don't think there is any place better than Texas.

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.

If you think that hiring professionals is expensive, try hiring amateurs

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

The only thing more expensive than hiring a professional, is hiring an amateur.

Never fear a job, always respect it, and always leave yourself a hind door to escape. May your hind door always be open.

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.