Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

Neil Gaiman

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities: a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss.

Dorothy Parker, from Incurable

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

Carly Fiorina

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Charles Francis Adams

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Elbert Hubbard

The love of freedom has been the quality of Western man.

Robinson Jeffers

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

Giambattista Vico

Europe and the U.K. are yesterday's world. Tomorrow is in the United States.

R. W. ''Tiny'' Rowland

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

Paul Kane

What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a tenacity that is virtually unshakable. Yet you are so good at being what you are! You hunt your victims like a dark angel. You kill ruthlessly. You feast all the night long on victims when you choose.So? I looked at her coldly. I don't know how to be bad at being bad.She laughed. I was a good marksman when I was a young man, I said, a good actor on the stage. And now I am a good vampire. So much for our understanding of the word 'good.'

Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat