"But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself."

“I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.”

“Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!”

Source : "Not Everyone Deserves to Have Children" by Dale Archer, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2010.

“I am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.”

“If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.”

Source : Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.71, Hachette UK

“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.”

“Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.”

“I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.”

“As to methods, there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods.”