True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done.

Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be.

The reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to kill them.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

TRUE Courage is when you are scared to death and STILL saddle up and ride in!

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow with a pair of women's panties?

I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.

How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won't sell at any price?

It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.

In the end, life teaches us what is important, and that is family.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.