I was an A student and I liked creative writing.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

My upbringing did not create a healthy affection for confrontation. I'd love it if everyone always got along, and nothing ever got tense.

I love potatoes - they're my favorite food.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

I don't spend time wondering what might be next; I just focus on trying to savor every day.

Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.

And then I realized that the close people to my heart, are actually the ones who hurt me the most.

We are trained to be employees, but no one said that we have endure a limited salary that barely keeps pace with inflation.

There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & powerful one

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.

I think it was hiding a princess.

We adults all stay sixteen or so in some corner of the soul.

Heaven is large, and affords space for all modes of love and fortitude.

The question that he frames in all but words is what to make of a diminished thing.

When I make a bad play, it frustrates the heck out of me, even in practice.