When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.

Mary J. Blige

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Joel A. Barker

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Henry David Thoreau

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Thomas Jefferson

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).

Christopher Hitchens

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

John Hawley

Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions.

Eric Butterworth

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Matthew Arnold

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

Prince Charles

More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.

Kofi Annan