The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

Wow. Imagine what God could have done if he'd had money.

But you can be happy, if you've a mind to!

I want my music to leave an indelible mark.

It's one thing to have talent. It's another to figure out how to use it.

I always took a great deal of pride in being original.

Age doesn't make a man.

. . . And some people sing and dance.

My uncle used to love me, but she died.

If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other.

Kenneth Cooper's research shows that low to moderate intensity exercise is just as beneficial as high-intensity exercise - but without the rigorous wear and tear on the system.

It's time to end the era of mass incarceration. We need a true national debate about how to reduce our prison population.

I just travel all the time.

God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

The 12-hour workday is not uncommon to anyone anymore.

I usually control the environment I'm in, but my control is very quiet and subtle.

I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl. The secret mischiefs that I set abroach I lay unto the grievous charge of others.