Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.
It is a common phenomenon that just the prettiest girls find it so difficult to get a man.
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
Nothing is sillier than this charge of plagiarism. There is no sixth commandment in art. The poet dare help himself wherever he lists, wherever he finds material suited to his work. He may even appropriate entire columns with their carved capitals, if the temple he thus supports be a beautiful one. Goethe understood this very well, and so did Shakespeare before him.
There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.
The more i get to know people, the more i like dogs.
Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Nobody as of today can produce any oral or written statement from me talking about changing the constitution.
Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?
It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.