Better an ugly face than an ugly mind

The mind paints before the brush.

On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

I challenged the kids to come out of halftime with a defensive stand. Holding them to two points in the third is what put away the game for us.

The fact that Democrat leaders in Texas and nationally are attempting to use the criminal-justice system to achieve the political victories that they failed to win at the ballot box makes them no better than Third World despots who impose their political will by jailing their opponents.