I am a country boy and proud of it.

Soul is a feeling, not a color.

No one can deny, this love I have inside, and I'll give it all to you, my endless love.

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

Let the music play on would be my legacy.

Simplicity is the key to what I do.

I find myself going out on the road to get my confidence back, because I lose it at home.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

I'm easy like Sunday Morning.

AWESOME things come to those who focus on the positive, recognize the blessings, find the humor and never give up!

You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

If you let them kill you, they will

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

Ever since I've had any political awareness, I've felt either alone or part of a tiny minority.

When the heart is sick it cannot bear the slightest annoyance.