I tried to connect my singing voice to my guitar an' my guitar to my singing voice. Like the two was talking to one another.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Never allow impatience to rob you of what you truly deserved.

My country, right or wrong, ” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.

Nothing succeeds like failure.

Blacheville smiles with the self-satisfied smugness of a man whose vanity is tickled

There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwrit er. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.

The days have never been long enough to do the things I would like to do. Every year has held more of interest than the year before.

Remember: ego can create misery, ego can create anguish, ego can create hate, ego can create jealousy. Ego can never become a vehicle for the divine, it can never become the passage for the beyond.

Be you and I think people will recognize the special things about yourself. Just be you, and be you to the fullest.