Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
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.
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
Freedom is from within.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.
Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.
We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives
I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
