When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.

I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

Character is long-standing habit.