True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be 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.

Guard your heart in your spirit.

It’s a sad fact that some people are only remembered once they’re dead.

Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.

It's OK to be wrong; it's unforgivable to stay wrong.

At length his lonely cot appears in view, Beneath the shelter of an aged tree; Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro' To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.