All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'!

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

Believe in everything, just in case.

Furniture or gold can be taken away from you, but knowledge and a new language can easily be taken from one place to the other, and nobody can take them away from you.

The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

Believe it or not, I thank my mom for how she raised me in a neighborhood daily to jump and chase me. It only made me what I am today.

Now it's our turn to kick some tail!

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

Expect of Man God, and he will appear to be a beast. Expect of Man a beast, and he will appear to be God.

It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past.

Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.