Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Nothing is black or white.

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

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

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

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.