A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling.

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

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

A lie never lives to be old.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Tell me thy company, and I shall tell thee what thou art.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.