If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Perhaps I love happy endings because I have been created for one. Heaven.

...photographs are facts, but not necessarily true... The present always surpasses the past, and the future will not care about today.

I don't know why it is, but I just love soul music and all that old country stuff. I guess somehow my heart mixed them both together as I made my albums.

You love him as a falcon loves his master who binds and blinds it.

A movie is the product of the chemistry of the people that make it. Whatever that core group of people is, that becomes the DNA of the movie.

More than a career, I feel that I've got a function. I see things in a much more holistic way. Some people bake the bread, and some people write the songs.

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

I would love to work with Nickleback. I think they're an incredible band. One of my favorites.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.