I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder. I cannot conceive of any vital disaster happening to this vessel. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that . . .

Texans ignore "better," long ago forgot the useless word "good." Everything in Texas is "best."

Successful entrepreneurs judge correctly the need for change, then do something about it.

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.

Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.

Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain.

Lisa cried until there was nothing left to cry about.

Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will jeopardize it.

How do you say, 'Do things for me without me asking you to' since in saying that, you are asking them?

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Tune into your own capacities and always make time for sleep

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

We have never seen a career like George Strait's in this business, and I venture to say we never will again. He has handled things amazingly well.

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, eh?

Greed puts out the sun.

Sometimes if the people are up for trying something that I'm interested in, it can be a great experience.