“All the time you spend tryin to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”

The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.

Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.

There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.

What joins men together is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

There’s a difference between quittin and knowin when you’re beat.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.

I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

Ever step you take is forever.

If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned…another lesson learned.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

The IRS sent back my tax return saying I owed $800. I said If you’ll notice, I sent a paper clip with my return. Given what you’ve been paying for things lately, that should more than make up the difference.

You know what I hate? Indian givers… no, I take that back.

Wilderness is harder and harder to find these days on this beautiful planet, and we’re abusing our planet to the point of almost no return.

There is in the Sacred Heart the symbol and express image of the infinite love of Jesus Christ which moves us to love in return.