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

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.

Opportunists seek for a chance. Entrepreneurs make new chances.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

I always looked ahead.

I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.

When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.

In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.

The chaos in our world may have brought you close to despair, but if you are willing to look at reasons for hope, perhaps you are ready for the 'Aquarian Conspiracy.'

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

Let me be the first to tell you drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

Positive thinking must be followed by positive doing.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

Surround yourself with supportive people. All the negative people, man you have to push them aside.

I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

If you're not controversial, you'll never break through the din of all the commentary.

I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.

Duran always disturbs me. The guy is just weird. Before our first fight, both Duran and his wife gave my wife the finger.

A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately like an army on maneuvers the ground troops here the tanks there the artillery and air force over there.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

Better be alone than in bad company.

I have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.