The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

Do right and risk the consequences.

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.

A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.

What about me?” Wes snapped. “Don’t I get a vote?”Daniel shook his head. “She’s willing and you’re breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Night, I have discovered, has a faintly bitter taste, caused by its large ingredient of Un-attained Possibility.

I murmured because I had no shoes until I met man who had no feet.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

I'm not really very ambitious.

When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't have done.

It is only through inner peace that we can have true outer freedom.

I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody.