The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

Most people do not invest their time because they do not see need to do that.

Much of history turns out to be the consequence of small acts of fortune, accident or luck, good or bad.

He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them.

The liberal paradigm of regulation and license has led to a society where an 18-year-old girl has the right to public fornication in a pornographic movie - but only if she is paid the minimum wage.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about.