Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

The joke of our time is the suicide of intention.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

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

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Never lend your car to someone you've given birth to.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

But there is only one thing which gathers people into seditious commotion, and that is oppression

Women have the right to work wherever they want, as long as they have the dinner ready when you get home.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Moonlight is sculpture.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

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