You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do it.

Pain comes like the weather, but joy is a choice.

He speaks four letter language because his mind is small. His voice is like venom, I don't like him at all.

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable, then you win.

The poetry of country music will survive.

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music.

God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

Try but don't try too hard. Just try hard enough, and things will go better.

The visible success you achieve is the result of what you have done inside you

Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic, ” his pedia said.

Imagine a legal system in which lawyers were equated with the clients they defended and were condemned for representing controversial or despised clients.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

For first you write a sentence, And then you chop it small; Then mix the bits and sort them out Just as they chance to fall: The order of the phrases makes no difference at all.

Reason and right give the quickest despatch.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

O Lord, I wish to promote thy holy religion which is dreadfully neglected. I am desirous to save young persons from the vices of the age.

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.