The goat, for us, is an image that's stuck in our heads since we were kids, coming from Iowa people are like 'Beware the horned goat of satan!' and all that. It's bullshit. It's just an animal.

The best friends you will ever have are the ones who don't make you feel like you owe them a damn thing.

It's amazing and sad what we have to do to survive sometimes.

Life owes you nothing. You owe yourself everything.

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.

Live your life, no matter what that life is.

Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.

You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.

Our proximity keeps us honest. Our intentions keep us strangers.

Do you serve a purpose, or purposely serve?

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Dream big! There is no limit to what you can achieve.

I don't know about the romantic comedy route, although never say never.

God has never disappointed me.

Hee that falles into the durt, the longer he stayes there, the fowler he is.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.