The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Dare to risk public criticism.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

A lie never lives to be old.

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.