There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

I have this strength that comes from knowledge.

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.

If you refuse to accept nothing but the best you will often get it.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

I believe that inside many Americans lies certain uneasiness about capital punishment.

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women writers working] in film.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

You are an adult when, faced with important decisions, you choose to have more faith in yourself than anything else.

This bill reminds me of the tactics of the former Soviet Union - and we know how successful that was.

I think it’s fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.