A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

I don’t care whether you’re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you’re headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That’s what the American people called for in November, and that’s what we intend to deliver.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

No one wants to see curvy women.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Any man who doesn’t love his mama can’t be no friend of mine.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

I’m actually starting to like more and more people who have convictions that are unpopular.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I’ve met.

Every single one of the guys that I’ve written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

All mankind love a lover.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

I’m not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I’m the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

Friends are thieves of time.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.