Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

I'd like to set things straight, a few more people should be pulling their weight.

I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.

Some sell their soul for the easy road. The devil's always buying. I can't count the ones I've known who fell right into line.

You're not challenging anyone else but yourself. I'd like to have a 300-pound bench, 500-pound deadlift, and a 400-pound squat.

Whatever you do today you've got to sleep with tonight.

The romantic stuff comes a lot easier when you're experiencing true love. It feels better, it feels more natural to record love songs when you're in love.

Never underestimate your fans; they'll tell you exactly what they like.

I'm a machine freak. I just love it when you can get a big ol' steel machine to do the most that it's capable of doing.

Every day we encounter situations where we have to make a stand. Looking back, I could have not hand-picked a better song to be my first single.

You can’t invite love with hate.

You (Millennials) are the generation most afraid of real community because it inevitably limits freedom and choice. Get over your fear.

I guess you only know your home when you come back to it.

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

In an age of militant mediocrity, an 'extremist' is anyone who takes a position.

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

My angel,-his name is Freedom,- Choose him to be your king; He shall cut pathways east and west, And fend you with his wing.