Obedience is the Christian's crown.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

When you are not happy with your life, always think that someone is happy simply because you exist

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

...trapped in limbo, believing in a lack of belief, but not necessarily lacking the belief to believe.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

The woman is so hard Upon the woman.

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.

Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome.

My brother is the one that gives me the strength - if he's not strong, I'm not.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

Yes, there was music after all. The sound of the swamp rose up to him. The sound of frogs and crickets, of birds and 'gators, of life in every puddle and pond and knothole and leaf. I Travel By Night

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.