Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
God is bigger than people think.
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation...
I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at...