Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It’s like a homepage without a scroll button?

It's odd how fast a beautiful woman can turn a guy's mind into lint storage. Just by being a beautiful woman.

All the stuff our fathers took for granted as long as you worked hard, the great safety net and the fair wage and the gold watch at the end of it all? That's all gone around here, my friend.

The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development through the proper investment and conversation of time.

People are only rational on the surface.

The voice of love calls to you, my son.

...would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk’s whole seraglio, gazelle-eyes, houri forms, and all!

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

You might be a redneck if...the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.

Be good at something. It makes you valuable. Have something to bring to the table, because that will make you more welcome.

I believe that as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

Treat them all the same by treating them differently.