I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.

Hoh, Boy!" Freddy snorted, slapping his palm to his forehead. "I hope you never donate your brain to science. It would set civilization back fifty years.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

I'm a worrier by nature. My husband says that if I'm not worried about something, I'm worried about what I've forgotten to be worried about.

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

I watch a lot of sports. One of the reasons I watch is to see how these guys handle pressure, how they respond to situations.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

My first professional job was actually at a place called Opryland USA, which no longer exists, but I've been performing since I was a kid.

Crying out to the lord is the only eternal reality within this temporary world.