Nashville will never be the same.

God laughs at men's plans.

Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

I want to make a difference.

I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God.

I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.

In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

I became a Christian when I was a little six-year-old boy.

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

I've been successful, and I'm grateful for that.

I crawled in the bathroom, looked in the mirror and saw the devil. It was me.

An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?

I'll take a [Pavel] Chekhov comparison any day! He's of course one of the great masters at the short story form, and has helped define traditional conflict as we understand it.

Institutions are imperfect. Governments surely are. People are.

Some of us are born big-minded with small penises. Others have big penises and small-minded.

Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

That's why I like babies. They're like beginnings we don't have?

Don't go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.

Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there.

I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness and honor without the sentiment of religion.

Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts