The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

(on the portrayal of women in literature) Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree

In the dark you hear movement—a squeak, a hiding. The heart opens, closes, opens.

The only friend you can ever have that understands you better than anyone else is you”.

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.