"You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble."

"We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around."

"My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also."

"If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts."

"I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done."

"I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry."

"I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened."

"Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was."

"Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time."

"Live's not the breathes you take, but the moments that take your breath away."

"I'd say three years ago we played in my hometown of San Antonio for 55,000 people at the Alamodome and walking out there with a crowd like that is just, you're excited, you're scared. There are just so many emotions going on. I still get nervous for things like that until after I sing about the first one or two songs, then I settle down."

"I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special."

"When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years."

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."

"We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans."

"I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest."

"The United States prefers that Iraq meet its obligations voluntarily, yet we are prepared for the alternative."

"People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened."

"Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue."

"America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life."

"America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman."

"Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve."

"We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace."

"We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail."

"To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States."

"Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'"

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

"This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war."

"I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging."

"Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people."

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."

"Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time."

"There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country."

"The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom."

"When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive."

"They misunderestimated me."

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."

"We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace."

"The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength."

"On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America."

"When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart."

"I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom."

"Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended."

"You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on."

"One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity."

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

"America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

"So, I'm lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, 'Free at last,' and she says 'You're free all right, you're free to do the dishes.' So I say, 'You're talking to the former president, baby,' and she said, 'consider this your new domestic policy agenda.'"

"The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them."