If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.
There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.
I try to keep my feet on the ground. Even though I appreciate the fame and adoration, I remember once I used to pick cotton, and I felt like even then I was somebody. I have the same feet, hands and heart like everyone else. I'm just also blessed with a good voice.
A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.
The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
Water is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
When you introduce these tools into the community, they can be adopted and implemented at the local level - and the results have been powerful. We have to ask the questions, how do people survive in poverty and other challenges of traumatic childhoods? And, until we fix this underlying problems, how do we help people in the meantime?
Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.