Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start too young to learn how to be careful.

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.

Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be.

You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.

A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

Only life suffered can transform a symphony from a collection of notes into a message of humanity.

We are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

There should be more booing in shops and restaurants and places like that when when the service is bad. If you've had a poor breakfast in a hotel, you should put your knife and fork down and boo.

Right now, I'm as single as a slice of American cheese.

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

When you're dead, you don't breathe, you don't see, you don't feel, you don't love.