I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around..

Hear the truth from whomever says it.

I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy..

Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking..

Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously..

God gave the day, God gave the strength..

I didn't really sign up to be a celebrity, I only signed up to be a writer..

Always do your best. Somebody is watching you..

Patience puts up with those you'd like to put down.

A limited state with free economic systems is the soil where the liberty tree blossoms..

We learn nothing by being right..

As George Costanza would say, when they're applauding, stop..

Sit up straight, listen and participate..

The one who is happy, that's the one who is right..

We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not..

Let science tell us what and how. Let religion tell us who and why..

November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree..

Do for yourself, for no one else will..

Life did not stop, and one had to live..

In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived..

Telling someone they're wrong is not the same as leading or inspiring them to do what's right..