I've been successful, and I'm grateful for that.

God laughs at men's plans.

Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

I want to make a difference.

Nashville will never be the same.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

I became a Christian when I was a little six-year-old boy.

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

I crawled in the bathroom, looked in the mirror and saw the devil. It was me.

Music-a country one can inhabit only in music.

Most people are afraid to really take the time and do the work required to love self enough to cradle their wounded parts like a newborn baby before involving anyone else in their life.

Dishonesty is never justified. God will never approve, and even your own conscience will rise up to condemn you sooner or later.

I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.

By the time a child reaches out to an adult, the vast majority of kids have been dealing with the bullying and trying to ignore it for a long time.