I found that no food tastes as good as what it feels like to be healthy.

Country to me is living life at its simplest: Learning to appreciate a sliced vine-ripe tomato with a dash of salt, served between two slices of good bread and eaten over the kitchen sink.

A smile can heal a thousand wounds.

I'm trying to do something that I have kind've a clue how to do.

I bought an organic rice milk. Frozen.....I'm not going to make something I don't know how to make, I don't have a recipe for.

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.

He that hath the name to be an early riser may sleep till noon.

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

If anything caused ISIS, it was the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.