I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.

There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

God himself helps those who dare.

The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.