This time I hurt her more than she loves me.

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

A good country song takes a page out of someone's life, and puts it into music.

Fads are the kiss of death. When the fad goes away, you go with it.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

I'm the only thing I'll ever hold against you.

You seldom hear any young artists in country music.

Sure, I can sing a country song, but so can a lot of people.

I go through a thousand songs to find ten for a new record.

It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.

Silence is the sublime refuge of your divine.

The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man.

Yeah, acting is very difficult. As much as I love it, and the challenge of it, I'm so often just terrified by it.

You're this rat in the American maze, working your way towards the cheese, which is a job.

We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing.

I would like to have a family someday, and I can't wait to be a stay-at-home mom.

I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.