In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete. And as long as there is breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet.

Life's not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see. So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.

She's a devil, she's an angel, she's a woman, she's a child. She's a heartache when she leaves you, but she'll leave you with a smile.

From here on after let's stay the way we are right now. And share all the love and laughter that a lifetime will allow.

You can lead a heart to love, but you can't make it fall.

I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.

In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free. Amarillo by morning, Amarillo is where I'll be.

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

Discovering While Doing Is Natural...But, Doing Immediately After Discovering Is The Attitude of Winners!

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

What's the opposite of suck? Un-suck?

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

Gods and men honor those who have fought in battle.

I think he loved us equally, but differently.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.