I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

Your reality is yours. Stop wasting time looking at someone else's reality while doing nothing about yours.

The most successful people in this world recognize that taking chances to get what they want is much more productive than sitting around being too scared to take a shot.

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

There is enough blessings for everyone.

You're not traveling if you already know everything.

The Declaration of Independence is a sacred part of American history.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

We just have to be ourselves.

What exactly are the ingredients of Ranch dressing? Mayo and disappointment?

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I'm a teacher, not a leader. If you lose your leader, you're leaderless and lost, but if you lose your teacher there's a chance that he taught you something and you can navigate on your own.

Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers.