Once more you open the door and you're here in my heart, and my heart will go on and on.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

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.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Look forward with confidence and backwards with attitude.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

Children have a master to teach them, grown-ups have the poets.

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

I simply decided that dope wasn't worth the ritual.

I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.

At age 31, in 1981, I was voted the best player in basketball, and the most valuable player in the league.

And that's when I know it's over. As soon as you start thinking about the beginning, it's the end.

"Take some more tea," the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. "I've had nothing yet," Alice replied in an offended tone, "so I can't take more."