"It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not."

“I'm not surprised people are being slaughtered, people are being martyred. Our hope isn't in this world as believers, it's in the eternity. To be absent of body is to be present with the Lord, so they are dying for something that is real and will last forever.”

“You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.”

“We are left with nothing but death, the irreducible fact of our own mortality. Death after a long illness we can accept with resignation. Even accidental death we can ascribe to fate. But for a man to die of no apparent cause, for a man to die simply because he is a man, brings us so close to the invisible boundary between life and death that we no longer know which side we are on. Life becomes death, and it is as if this death has owned this life all along. Death without warning. Which is to say: life stops. And it can stop at any moment.”

“You never know when the next person to shake your hand at an autograph session, or the next guy you bump into on line at the pizza parlor, that could be your best friend for the rest of your life. Or it could be the person that two years later pushes you out of the way of a speeding bus. I mean, you just don't know.”

Source : Source: tv.avclub.com

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”

“I do believe some people can naturally act and don't know it.”

“I try to only work with people whose craft I believe in.”

Source : "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martin, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

“When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.”

Source : "Barbara Mandrell: Sweetness Through Suffering". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.