Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

Uva uvum vivendo varia fit

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.

Yesterday's gone on down the river and you can't get it back.

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

Time’s relativity is considered and abandoned, for the more revelatory experiences of starlightin strands, and pearly floors that span as far as absolute compassion...

When we change and grow into new versions of ourselves, we have to tolerate a lot of uncertainty.

You never know when someone will come into your life and change things, for good or bad, let them in. They don’t have to always stay but, human interaction is the pinnacle of life’s lessons.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.

Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success

As long as some of us choose to rely on nuclear weapons, we continue to risk that these same weapons will become increasingly attractive to others.

Paradise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.