The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

Luck is being ready for the chance.

The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting.

I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.

The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

The average PhD thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.

Hard hands and no sense of humor makes for a bad marriage.

It’s okay, ” I tell her.“It is okay to be happy

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them, ” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.

The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself.

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

In a free society we're supposed to know the truth. In a society where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. And now, people who are revealing the truth are getting into trouble for it.

I love music, so if I wasn't singing, I would probably still be working in the music industry. I love songwriting, so I'd probably be a songwriter.