“If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion, don't go lookin' in the donkey corral.”

“Smitty leaned forward, resting his arms on this raised knees. "I am fixin' to get mad, Jessie."You're fixin' to get mad?""Yeah.""Why don't you just get mad?""I'm not there yet. But I will be if you don't start talking to me."Smitty to Jessie Ann”

“Just don't go out fighting. I don't need to know where you're going, that's your biz. But if you get yourself killed, I got ninety-nine problems and you're the biggest one of them." Rehv to John”

“My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.”

“Do something that surprises yourself cause if you don't surprise yourself, you're not going to surprise anybody else.”

“You don't get married for yourself, you get married because you're better together than separate.”