I love those who yearn for the impossible.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Music is this divine thing, the closest that we can get to something divine. It’s like this instinct we all own, and some of us have found a way to hear that music and write it down and share it with people.

Love is only one of many passions.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you’re heartbroken, but tomorrow you’ll be in love again.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

All art is but imitation of nature.

My wife and I love each other very much.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

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.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it’s almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

A good model of how to ‚work with the enemy‘ internally is presented by the Dalai Lama, in his endless caretaking of his soul as he confronts the Chinese government that invaded Tibet.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

We will always be a family. Always.

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

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.