"Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now."

"Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'"

"We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure."

"Tell the trial lawyers to get out of your state and to quit costing businessmen and women."

"It is a unyielding truth that art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless."

"Do not measure life by the breaths you take, but by the moments that stir your soul. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television."

"Nature teaches us a valuable lesson: hope is the anchor of a weary soul."