“The music business can be very cold. And it doesn’t honor its elders.”

Im Sorry was one of the first songs to come out of Nashville using strings.

I still don’t look at myself as a star. I’ve always had a thankful heart.

I had been singing since I was 3 years old, so my love of singing was always there.

Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.

The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don’t resent them, you are not fit to live.

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.

I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long descents, to boast false honors from.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.