The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Sure, he might not have been perfect, but if I thought he was, isn’t that all that matters?

These are the advantages of travel, that one meets so many men whom one would otherwise never meet, and that one feeds as it were upon the complexity of mankind

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.

It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.

You have resources yet to be unleashed. Make bold, courageous choices. Live as though you have the power to change the world - because you do.

Religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things.

I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.

Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.

I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.

When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.