If you see me getting smaller, I'm leaving, don't be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don't worry, and no hurry, I've got the right to disappear.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

Discipline is an index of your lifebook, maintain it properly

The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

My Heart is Bounding! I can fly anywhere as long as I'm with the Nakama I Love!!!" ~Leevy

I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.

A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.

I encouraged the cast to make up their own lines.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

Winners never quit, quitters never win.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

I have no idea if world peace is attainable. But aiming for it is.