In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

It is equally demonstrable that so far as Texas is concerned, there have been equal confusion, insecurity and injustice in the administration of the State governments.

Who of us is able to read and understand and be entirely confident of the validity of his title to the land he lives on, and which he has redeemed from a state of nature by the most indefatigable industry and perseverance?

And that's the way it is.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

We decided to focus on women because no one was singling them out.

Man is condemned to be free because once thrown into the world he is responsible for everything he does.

Every lie contains the truth, and every truth contains a lie...

Say you're an American novelist, published by the largest publishing house in the world. Their goal is to make as much money from you as possible, to have as many people read your book in as many formats as possible. How can you hope to speak intimately to the numbers of people that represent the book sales required?

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

The world neither ever saw, nor ever will see, a perfectly fair lottery.

People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.

Maybe the best way to get people to be pro-life is to start 'em off in amateur-life.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.

Lonely isnt a feeling when youre alone lonely is a feeling when no one cares.

There's two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery.

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.

I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.

Mel Blanc has been gone for 30 years, even though he's still around.

What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.