First and foremost I am a commercial writer, and I hope to entertain people. But having said that, I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs, and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing, I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

Garth Brooks

Because my parents, growing up, they worked hard. Everyone in my family woke up early in the morning. I used to see my mother and my father go off to work, and come back and, no matter what, they had time for the kids.

Herschel Walker

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

Alicia Keys

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Charles Dickens

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

John Lennon

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Edith Wharton

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

Thomas Carlyle

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Thorstein Veblen

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

Jimi Hendrix

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Robert H. Schuller

Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.

Phyllis Diller