Life is about holding on and letting go.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

I don't want to impress, I want to inspire.

From the cradle to the grave, temptations all around. But no matter how good the fix, its gonna take you down.

It took a while for her to figure out she could run but when she did she was long gone, Long gone.

I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does.

You changed my life. You changed my ways. I don't even recognize myself these days. It must be a reflection of you, only you.

Since I was a kid I just wanted to be in Nashville.

I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music.

If it's a real dream it's uncrushable.

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

He (Newt Gingrich as a freshman congressman) was both passionate about his goals and coldly analytical in his means.

Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.

I love talking the way Trappists love silence.

It's never too late-in fiction or in life-to revise.

The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.

As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the surface of their lives.

The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.