Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.

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.

Beauty takes courage. Courage itself takes courage.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.

By the ruler's cultivation of his own character there is set up the example of the course which all should pursue.

I know some amazing actors who are not mortified every moment of the day, so my feeling is that maybe you don't have to be a wreck to be good.

Anything I learned was just work hard, just keep working and don't worry about the outside stuff. Whatever happens will happen.

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.

But you cannot have harmony without a commitment to ethical behavior. It's the fence that keeps out the goats that will eat all the young shoots in your garden.

I think our show is very different from Orange County.

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.