The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.

No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Country radio certainly widens the boundaries of what I can do. Other artists may do something more edgy that gets on radio and that opens the door for me to be more edgy, I think.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

Noblest minds are easiest bent.

Devotion is when your involvement with life is so absolute that you yourself do not matter anymore.

When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and open-endedness.

I taught myself to drive. I hope that the child in me never dies.

As long as you know I am waiting, take your time flowers of the spring.