Always put yourself around people who want to succeed because when they succeed you will to succeed as well.

Divided we are as people but if we stand together and fight we as a race will unite.

You will be surrounded by negativity but you shall overcome it with positivity.

Don't let people get the best of you they say what they want but don't let that distract you from accomplishing your goals.

To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all..

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention.

Smile even when you're going through some hard times.

Always dream big because once you stop dreaming you stop living.

A preacher shouldn't preach just to make you feel good. Then it's about the money not about the teach. He should preach the truth because the truth shall set you free.

Practice hard, Train hard, work hard and Play harder.

You shouldn't just give during Christmas and Thanksgiving you should be giving all the time.

Our capacity can grow or diminish, and either way, the results compound over time.

My weapon is literature

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.

You can only coax someone into the vortex from in the vortex.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

You have to train your mind and your ears, but they're more like athletic skills. So, part of music you just have to learn those things or you can't practice the art.

And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.