There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

With great power comes great dissipation.

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

You may choose to believe or not, but the fact is that immortal means immortal. Can you imagine that for a moment, never dying? Never fading? Existing, just as you are, for all time?

You could be going to have supper with someone who happens to be male, and all of a sudden he is your boyfriend of nine months... and I am cheating on my existing boyfriend.

This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough.

I am an eternally curious person, but I wouldn't go to such lengths to know what it is like to be someone else.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.