Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'!

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

Anyone can go online and write anything they want about people they don't even know, and most of the time, that is fueled by hate. The sad part is that people actually believe what they read online.

Mathematics is the science which uses easy words for hard ideas.

My own thoughts Are my companions.

The easiest gift to give my husband is anything to do with airlines and flying.

Good people don’t go to Heaven, forgiven people do.

Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.

It's like apples and oranges, you can't compare it. It was just a matter of playing anyone who was breathing.