I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

I was always the Southern gentleman.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

I've always dreamed of having a large family.

I definitely didn't want to be that person that came out and was like, 'O.K. I'm going to lead every parade.

I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I grew up with is just something very special to me.

I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

With great diligent, pursue your dreams.

A short axe can still cut down tall trees.

If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

A work of art comes only from inside a human being.

Forgiveness is a sacrifice. You're giving up being right about something, whether you're right or wrong about it.

Those who satisfy the wants of a smaller number of people only collect fewer votes-dollars-than those who satisfy the wants of more people.

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

In fact, by universal grammar I mean just that system of principles and structures that are the prerequisites for acquisition of language, and to which every language necessarily conforms.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.