Mama is the greatest teacher, teacher of love, fearlessness and compassion.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.

We all have hearts.... If you have a heart, love somebody. If you have enough heart, love everybody.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

It feels better to love than to hate.

There may be a brighter star. But through my eyes the light of you is all I see.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Let us never forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins other arts follow. The farmers therefore are the founders of civilization.

The country is in tremendous trouble.You know this in North Carolina, because you see what's happening to your jobs, they're disappearing.

Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

The only rule is don't be boring.

If you're trying to be realistic and bring real life to the screen, you are going to have different elements. That's what I'm trying to do. As I make the movie, different elements come in naturally.

If you think of big, legislative accomplishments, most of them kind of get initiated with the president putting something out there and Congress working on it.

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.