She never looks at the ring.

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.

When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come back to reality.

You know, voices can't hurt you if you don't listen to them.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.