Everybody goes through a period where you're fighting a lot, I think. Sometimes that can be a good thing for your relationship. That conflict can lead to making up.

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.

There is no friend like a book there is no beauty like a kind heart.

In the letters section, a Scot reminds his readers of the ‘Glorious Alliance’ between France and Mary Queen of Scots, which explains why Scotland should not share the rabid Europhobia of Englishmen.

All Ghosts Are Gray

Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot.""That I will, unless he gets me under his.""Never easy, kicking upwards.

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!

A garden in winter is the absolute test of the true gardener.

Day full-blown and splendid-day of the immense sun, action, ambition, laughter, The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and restoring darkness.