You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

Decades of corporate government deregulation and reduced funding of important government departments has the country well along the path to a lawless society.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

All inferences from experience... are effects of custom, not of reasoning.

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

Love brings up everything unlike itself.

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it?

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.