I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

I'm just trying to keep things simple, and just be a little more offhand and not get so deep into things. Enjoy what you got right now, because who knows what's going to happen tomorrow.

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll.

Those are the memories that made me a wealthy soul.

Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

Mediocrity's easy, the good things take time, the great need commitment.

Up with the sun. Gone with the wind.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined together by a wedding ring, or in a boxing ring.

This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love...

The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind.

He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live.

School curricula that ignore the arts produce highly educated Barbarians

I couldn't really experience being an author when I was still working in publishing - I was trying to negotiate being both. Sometimes the knowledge doesn't translate between the two roles.

There's power when you call on God, you ask Him, and you invite Him into your life. God will be in your life as much as you allow Him to.

Let me tell you something. I ain't scared of nothing. I came out my mama.

People pour themselves into their own doctrines, and God has to blast them out of their preconceived ideas before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

People can think whatever they think, but that's my strength to go forward.