Nashville has always been competitive. My granddaddy called it the Hillbilly Babylon.

Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.

Beware what you speak, ' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.

A slow hour passed, distracted by intermittent drops of moisture from above, as if the sky were conducting a feasibility study on the implications of rain. Of committing to a course of action.

I think if you're going to be committed to doing anything, you really have to care about it, and I suppose that is a romantic idea.

Learn to commend thy daily acts to God, so shall the dry every-day duties of common life be steps to heaven, and lift they heart hither.

The cinema is death at work.

Of all the uncertain things marriage is the uncertainest.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

If everybody that had two cars had a Prius instead of an SUV, we wouldn't be in the Middle East right now.

Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.