Money is not the motivating force. It's nice to have money, but I don't live high. What I enjoy is running the business.

Playing four years of college, you learn a lot; you learn more about yourself than anything.

If you want to be at the highest level, then you have to really work hard every day.

At the end of the day, when you're young you think you're invincible.

Sometimes the wrong thing is said or things don't come out the way they were intended.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Sometimes your haters are your biggest motivators.

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

I made quite a lot of money in commercials and I decided when I got out of school to take singing lessons so I could get into singing commercials, too.

I'm very career-minded.

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

Happiness is a man's greatest achievement; it is the response of his total personality to a productive orientation toward himself and the world outside.

Man can only know the nagation, never the position of ultimate reality.

Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.