Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo

Sometimes when a new piece of knowledge comes along you suddenly change your priorities and focus on something completely different instead.

She dries her eyes and bakes her pies and leaves 'em on the window sill

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.

What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

Some people are good only because they are afraid of punishment. These justify why we need government

Billie laughed at that, full and throaty, and once again she became so incandescently beautiful that George was half-tempted to throw a blanket over her, just to stop anyone else from wanting her.

I believe it's a real tedious hostage negotiation to have a marriage be what it is.

I will kick you in the nuts and you will smile and like it.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

It's that tingle in my stomach, that lump in my throat and that smile on my face that tell me I am part of an incredible team.

Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

Man is a being in search of meaning.

It is important to say "sir" at these moments. And if they ever call you by your first-middle-last name, you better watch out. I'm telling you.