Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

Cars bring me sheer joy.

I was born in '72, and my dad was county judge of El Paso from '82 to '86. He was just as independent as he could be, and had an amazing joy in life and in being with people, which, from my perspective as a kid, was that he was always going to do the right thing, and damn the consequences - political or otherwise.