Marriage is a great institution and no family should be without it.

A critic is a legless man who teaches other people to run

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

Opportunity rarely knocks until you are ready. And few people have ever been really ready without receiving opportunity's call.

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.

Human labor, the manual work that people engage in to build their world, both physical and spiritual, defines the realization of their conceptual realm.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

Happiness is a decision I must make.

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

Just because it is an All-Star Game doesn't mean that you are playing as efficiently as you should.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.