If we all could sound like we wanted to, we'd all sound like George Jones.

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.

These days, I'm finding it harder and harder to breathe. My chest pounds with every heart beat like you're here, again, standing in front of me, your two hands around my neck.

The (Bible) story is much more powerful as Truth than as metaphor.

Focus on the mission.

Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

I fill my life with a lot of 'busyness' in between jobs. Then I work very hard. Some of it is quite unhealthy. It's compulsive. I don't know what to do about it. I'm a little old to change.

True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke.

A good party is where you enjoy good people, and they taste even better with Champagne.