Write what you love. Passion is the key to a good story.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

I respect my limitations, but I don't use them as an excuse.

Call me a braggart, call me arrogant. People at ABC (and elsewhere) have called me worse. But when you need the job done on deadline, you'll call me.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

The best things in life are often the ones hardest to get. Yet they are also the ones that are the easiest to find, usually right in front of your face.

I may not yet be as old as dirt, but dirt and I are starting to have an awful lot in common.

I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man’s name.

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.

That is the best Government, which best provides for war.

I'm a Scorpio, and who knows if there is any validity to it, but I'm very emotional. I have high highs and low lows.

Having talent isn't merely about being competent; confidence is actually a part of that talent.

Sing like nobody can hear you, dance like nobody can see you, and love like you've never been hurt.

Every night is a time for drink.

This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.