Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

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

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

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

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

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

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

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.