Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

My health is good it's my age that's bad.

Regardless of where you started, there is always the next level. You need to keep leveling up your skills.

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?"