I’ve had the kind of bad day no quote can fix.

Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.

I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

Family gathersto share good noise and good food.Gratitude abounds.

It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

They worried that fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical realities.

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.

I am going to be considerate and compassionate to everyone, but my greatest compassion will be for our own struggling citizens.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

I'm not going on a diet, I'm not trying to lose weight, because your insecurities are what make you different and if everyone looked the same, it'd be boring.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

To understand the limitation of things, desire them.

Business is the marketplace of ideas.

I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to.