I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

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

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

Single life is so overrated.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

I’m not a bad person.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

I’ve been so blessed to play for the greatest coach at a time when our organization has done incredible things. I’ve played with the best teammates. Playing for Mr. Kraft and what his influence on the team has been.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

The way I approach this thing, when I started to get my head screwed on straight and really trying to make something of myself as an artist, when I was 19 or 20, it became more about function for me. Like, what is this song doing to you? What is the function of this type of artform? What is it doing?

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you’re changing, emotionally as well as physically?

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

We cannot learn men from books.

I am happy and I’m single.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what’s been on your mind so you can think about what you’ve been thinking about.

For me, education was power.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

I can’t tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I’ve got a good bead on myself.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

Never complain and never explain.

To lead people walk behind them.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.