I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.

Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.

Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.

I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.

God is bigger than people think.

I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

Love forever, love is free

Life is not just for living

When you cannot make up your mind between two evenly balanced courses of action choose the bolder.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

The word reality frightens me.

You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

If the presence of God is in the church, the church will draw the world in. If the presence of God is not in the church, the world will draw the church out.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

You've been fightin again and, you forgot why Hey kid, walk straight, master your high

We are often prophets to others only because we are our own historians.