"You will only find the happiness you seek when you drop your negative attitude towards life, embrace life and be happy."

“I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.”

“My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.”

“The only alternative to war is peace and the only road to peace is negotiations.”

“Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.”

“My mother always said don't marry for money, divorce for money.”

“If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'”

Source : Interview with Paul Harris, www.harrisonline.com. May 30, 1996.

“I like people who are constantly working hard, more than people who are constantly at their best.”

“For too long, we've assumed that there is a single template for human nature, which is why we diagnose most deviations as disorders. But the reality is that there are many different kinds of minds. And that's a very good thing.”