Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads, ' it's a sight to behold.

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

You can't kill it with goodbye; It always finds a place to hide inside your heart for your whole life. Love is never-ending.

I hope I'm at least half the dad that he didn't have to be.

You look out there and there's people that, their day is changed because of your contribution to it.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

If there's a song where there's a possibility of guitar stuff that would be fun to listen to, go for it. Don't worry about what anybody thinks.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.

Going to sleep is an adventure: you never know where your dreams will take you.

Heaven has no clocks or calendars, and time will be no more [Revelation 10:6].

Feeble is the character, that bows to inflated ego, arrogance, and whines of affluent, whilst raising itself mercilessly on the humble and underprivileged.

... one would like to be both [loved and feared], but as it is difficult to combine both love and fear, if one has to choose between them it is far safer to be feared than loved

There is more evidence that Jesus rose from the dead than there is that Julius Caesar ever lived or that Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-three.

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

We live, I think, in the century of science and, perhaps, even in the century of physics.

Confession is the sacrament of the tenderness of God, his way of embracing us.