You can fall, but you can rise also.

Your brain is your greatest weapon. Connect it to your heart, and you can go anywhere.

It is proven that when women are educated, the ability of the country goes up immediately.

I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.

It doesn't matter what challenge you face, the most important thing is, when you fall, how you rise and how high you want to go, where you want to go from that rise on.

You cannot transform the society of people if the people are not part of the change.

You have to stand for something or you fall for everything.

From the moment you are clear in your vision of yourself and how you project that vision in your family, your community and in the world, that's all that matters.

Dream big, as long as you do it in sync with your truth, with your heart, your brain. And you are not hurting anybody, go ahead and do it.

My legacy is not only about legacy, it's about how we as a human family learn to live together within our difference.

I don't like the idea of something being pure. It means we have to be perfect, I don't want to be perfect.

What river can flood over the mountains of your love?

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

There's an old saying about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. But those of us who refuse to forget the past are condemned to relive it.

ULTIMATUM, n. In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions.

Don't bother to examine a folly-ask yourself only what it accomplishes.

By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.

Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.

Winning the ACM, winning the CMA, my first time on the Opry and having Grammy nominations were all a big deal to me.

In love and faith I just have to believe

As with most consensual crimes, this prohibition of hemp is both silly and sinister.