I believe you have to live the songs.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

Formal education teaches how to stand, but to see the rainbow you must come out and walk many steps on your own.

The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that perhaps, is what makes him different from others.

I don't own you, you just belong to me.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

It's part of the institution of teshuva, if you make a mistake, you have to restore it as you can.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

For a large organization to be effective, it must be simple.

Adding CO2 to the air is like throwing another blanket on the bed.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

Absolute power is absolute power, no matter what it's called.