I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

I believe you have to live the songs.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

It's not about who you used to be, it's about who you have become.

Flat muscled and honey coloured. Sea secrets in his eyes. A silver raindrop in his ear.

We are always beginning to live but are never living.

Reincarnation is implicit in the manifested universe and is a basic and fundamental.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

Strategy is a pattern in a stream of decisions

Let us hear what the Bible says and what we as Christians are called to hear together: By grace you have been saved.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. Admirable gardens of absurd beliefs, forebodings, obsessions and frenzies. Unknown, ever-changing gods take shape there.

Just ask anybody who is getting old - everything starts hurting. For me, it's my shoulders, thumbs, knees and feet.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.