Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Where there is love there is life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

The future depends on what you do today.

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Relationships are based on four principles: respect, understanding, acceptance and appreciation.

Don't complain it's too cold now if you also intend to whine about how hot it is when summer comes. It's just hypocritical.

Life is all about having a good time.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

I live like a monk: with one toothbrush, one cake of soap, and a pot of cream.

Better the devil you know than the angel you don't.

You might be a redneck if your wife wants to stop at the gas station to see if they've got the new Darrell Waltrip Budweiser wall clock.

When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.

I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be. Lucky you, lucky me.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.