Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

If it's not too late, make it a cheese-burger

What would we do if we didn't try? We have to try.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

Home is where my horse is.

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.

Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.

I don't understand how everything changes, how the layers of your life get buried. Impossible. At some point, at some time, we must all explode.

The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.

Never do anything that you don’t want to have to explain to 9-1-1 personnel.

Saying of the ProphetObjectsIt is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

I don't believe in the concept of a soul mate. Because we are all unique, but we're also simply too similar.

We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.

Your abilities are the map to God's will for your life. It points the direction. When you know what you're good at, then you can know what God wants you to do with your life.