Set yourself the bolder course. Keep your heart an open shrine.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

Conscience is a coward and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Well I'm living in a foreign country but I'm bound to cross the line. Beauty walks a razor's edge...someday I'll make it mine.

If your hand doesn't work for it, your heart doesn't feel sorry for it.

Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

There is something in every season, in every day, to celebrate with thanksgiving.

Protect me from what I want.

I feel like you can be the best role model by being yourself.

I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

I'm proud of what I've achieved in cricket, as once I didn't think I was good enough.