I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

Whenever you go with the cheaper option, you end up regretting it

I think the American people are looking for real leadership. That's what I've done in Louisiana, that's what I'll do in America.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

Shall I tell you what you have that other men don't?.... It's the courage of your own tenderness.

In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.