To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Don't let anyone tell you your idea is stupid. Do you know how many successful people had people tell them that, and they still made it?

She was supposed to be my salvation, and though she wouldn’t be my ruin, the loss was going to thrust my life right back to what started my downward spiral in the first place.

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Do what your momma tells you to do, go to sunday school, go to church, and when you die, you'll go to Statesboro.

Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.

My trophy value exceeded my military usefulness.

In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

The only problem in the past has been my kids. I'd want to bring them to London with me, but they are at an important stage in high school.

I'm far from perfect, but I don't think I'm ugly.