Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

Do you love me, Rain?""More than I knew it was possible to love. All the stars will fall from the heavens before I ever stop.

We can seek God and find him! God is knowable, touchable, hearable, seeable, with the mind, the hands, the ears and the eyes of the inner man.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.

To listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment.

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.