I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

I am a lineman for the county.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.

May we love each other not only at Christmas but all year.

A very remarkable people the Zulus: they defeat our generals, they convert our bishops, they have settled the fate of a great European dynasty.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Violence should not always beget more violence.

I was always influenced by language.

She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star.

The Press nowadays is not a literary press; classic diction and brilliancy of style do not distinguish it by any means.

The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

Never only exists in your head. Anything is possible.