I want to be safe in the knowledge that I can tour and play festivals for a long time. The main thing is that I want a good reputation as a live performer. If I have that, I'd be so happy.

All dark and comfortless.

William Shakespeare

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

Oliver Goldsmith

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

Will Durant

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Marian Anderson

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

Oscar Wilde

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Bill Clinton

I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or,

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

Oswald Spengler

I'm a mom first.

Mindy McCready

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

Tom Landry

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain