Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Youth is a frame of mind. If you get out there and enjoy it, you can have it at any time of your life.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

Friendships come and go, but families are forever.

I do ballads that say what every man wants to say and that every woman wants to hear, or I do songs about social issues.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

We cannot hope to change a nation without facing trials and persecution in the process

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

It's a scary world we live in when a person of color endorses a racist for president.

The material universe exists only in the mind.

Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.

Everything that we've ever done has led up to this moment, so I presume there's a certain intricacy in that.

One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction.

You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.