The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

My health is good it's my age that's bad.

You must fight to make sure that your life does not just disappear into thin air. It is a battle of not allowing those your seconds, those your minutes to just disappear into thin air.

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comfortable. It's almost like having a best friend. It's a beautiful thing.

Doesn't matter if it's personal or professional, a good partnership takes work.

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

I can see myself wanting to write a historical novel - you don't need to worry about references to reality TV or pop music, you can just get on with the basics of story and character.

I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.

I'm not a comedienne. I'm an actress.

When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history.