We ride and never worry 'bout the fall. Guess that's just the cowboy in us all.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.

There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above, with a handful of faith and a heartful of love.

When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist

When all is said and done, I'd never count the cost. It's worth all that's lost, just to see you smile.

Like an old photograph, time can make a feeling fade, but the memory of a first love never fades away.

Art's for art. Money's for pizza.

I don't know where I'd be without you here with me. Life with you makes perfect sense. You're my best friend.

I still got a few more dances with the devil...

You came to this world with nothing, and you will leave this world with nothing. There is nothing to gain or lose. You can only touch everyone and everything with your love.

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

In order for people to live their own lives and fulfill their destiny, they must differentiate themselves from destructive environmental influences.

Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals.

The less their ability, the more their conceit.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

Without technique it is impossible to reach the top in chess, and therefore we all try to borrow from Capablanca his wonderful, subtle technique.

Aristocrats might shrug, but commoners, dreading any collapse of the social order, wanted the rules of behavior to be observed.