Persuasion isn't about the people you disagree with. It's about the fulcrum; the persuadable audience.

You fight to win; you argue to achieve agreement.

People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

For heaven's sake, don't write writing. Write reading!

The soul needs more space than the body.

I just love jumping into someone else's life. It is a relatively cheap way to experience things you would be too scared to contemplate in your own life.

The ego is not only the unobserved mind, the voice in the head which pretends to be you, but also the unobserved emotions that are the body's reaction to what the voice in the head is saying.

What appears is good; what is good appears.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.

I don't give a damn if you like Blackbeard. I don't care if you think he is an absolute despot. Do you believe me? If you do, I've done my work.

I'm only me when I'm with you.