If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'!

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

In here I'm the guy who can get things for you... outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. I don't think I could make it.

Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction.

Make a decision to perform something great, something that requires skill, something special for the Kingdom of God.

A story can only be contained in a book.

I can always create new material. That's something I can control.

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.

Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.