It seems insane-so violent and loud. It's audacious that you would even think such a thing.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Timely service like timely gifts is doubled in value.

The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

I have never listened to authority. It is not in my DNA.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

Jump up, look around, find yourself some fun. No sense in sitting there hating everyone.

I love Nashville. I've been here so many times... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun.

The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.

Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra.

We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.