You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

God is bigger than people think.

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

Those who say that having childlike faith means not asking questions haven't met too many children.

The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked upon "Grand Tours" of Europe in pursuit of a peripatetic scholarship.

When you have the right intention, the right opportunity will open the door.

A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Swans live wherever there is water, and leave the place where water dries up; let not a man act so - and comes and goes as he pleases.

Repetition may not entertain, but it teaches.

I don't need protecting. I am not the girl you save. I am fine.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.