There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.

Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

Trust yourself. Believe in yourself. Listen to your inner voice. Don't second guess yourself. Learn to listen to your inner guidance.

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

We do not believe in order to be regenerated; we must be regenerated in order that we might believe.

I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.