You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".

If you want to make marijuana legal, you've got to stay straight long enough to f - vote.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.

How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?