I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too.

You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet.

Life's not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

...this beginning motion, this first time when a sail truly filled and the boat took life and knifed across the lake under perfect control, this was so beautiful it stopped my breath...

Necessity does the work of courage.

He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas

Haste is of the devil. Slowness is of God.

And it's a - it's a term that's based on contempt; it's a term that's based on fashion, style, elitism, satanism, and, everything that's rotten about rock 'n' roll.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

. . . a dirty exterior is a great enemy to beauty of all descriptions.

However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.