Do right and risk the consequences.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.

Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas

Texas will again lift it's head and stand among the nations. It ought to do so, for no country upon the globe can compare with it in natural advantages.

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

I humble myself before God, and there the list ends.

Texas is the finest portion of the globe that has ever blessed my vision!

I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

Survival isn’t all there is to life

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God’s power and might in orderto have prosperity.

You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is not having the capability to realize one's full potential as a human being

It is an amazing fact of human nature that one year we can be chopping each other up and the next year we can be sharing a pint. We seem to often devolve into conflict no matter how much we evolve...

The genuine writer cannot ignore the fact that the family is losing its spiritual foundation.

What-so-ever the mind has ordained for itself, it has achieved