Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

Derek’s. Lucas’. Ben’s. It’s beyond me what I must do to make them realize that I’m neither object nor possession. I don’t belong to any of them.

Growing up, I believed in miracles. I guess I don’t anymore.

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught.

jThe notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.

The art of those who govern consists above all in the science of employing words.

America is losing faith in modern medicine, and for good reason.

Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood.

I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.