“It takes a real man to live for God-a lot more man than to live for the devil, you know? If you really want to live right these days, you gotta be tough.”

The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I’ve got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.

Creative people have to be fed from the divine source. I have to get fed. I had to get filled up in order to pour out.

It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.

My arms are too short to box with God.

Until things are brighter. I’m the man in black.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I’m the biggest sinner of them all.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I.

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you’re mine, I walk the line.

You can ask the people around me. I don’t give up. I don’t give up. I don’t give – and it’s not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don’t give up. I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.

The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don’t go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout.

A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

If you’re going to be a Christian, you’re going to change. You’re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

The more I learn, the more excited I get.

Sometimes people rehabilitate and reform their lives into being a great person when they make awful choices as children.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.

Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.

Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.