The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.
I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.
I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.
You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.
Common sense is not so common.
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.