I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at it is the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

All men are created equal it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, 'you don't build that.'

What is good about Good Friday Why isnt it called Bad Friday Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad because though the bad was temporary the good is eternal.

A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

Look, I'm a huge supporter of Obama's - he's the first president I ever donated money to. But I think in terms of climate change and the environment, he's been, at best, disappointing.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

The best thing is to go public only when you're absolutely sure that's the right move for the company. And in order to make sure that is the case, you need to have as much control over the company as possible, which means not giving up control early on.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.

True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

With every episodic, there's a learning curve where writers try to find the voice of the characters by way of the actors. Many details are found along the way. On 'Caprica,' although the franchise already existed, we were creating an entirely new world full of new characters.

I love singing. I have spent as much of my life trying to improve my singing as I have practising guitar.

I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.

I'm a big believer in sort of sense memory, like using something that you've experienced in order to put yourself in the position that the character is in.

There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

A real man protects your heart, he doesn't play with it.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

This is a great time in our lives and careers.

I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

Be you. Do you. For you.

I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.