and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Steven Fry on The Da Vinci Code-"It is complete loose stoolwater. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

Two worlds one family

Discipline is one of the basic and primary requirements for success in life.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.

When I started out, it was this sense of, "Let's put out a record and see what happens and see where you go and see how you feel and where we can take it." That was a very different world back then.

There are billions of people in the world, and every one of them is special. No one else in the world is like you.

As a writer, my homeland is the desk where I work.