The best Quotes by Willie Nelson

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

Freedom is control in your own life.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

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.

You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.

America, to me, is freedom.

It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

Honesty is something you can't wear out.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

Dante: "[seeing a Confederate flag] What? Are you serious?"
Lila: "Newsflash, we're in deep Texas."

The stars at night, are big and bright,
deep in the heart of Texas,
The prairie sky is wide and high,
deep in the heart of Texas.

Of course, nobody I knew in East-Texas in 1989 cared about Newtonian Physics. The only Newtons they cared about were Wayne and Fig.

When a Texan gets knocked off a horse, he gets right back on. That is the second most important thing about bein' a Texan, right after thinkin' you're better than everybody else.

"Did you grow up in Texas?"
Meemaw: "Took my first bath in a ten-gallon hat."

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Nothing's gonna save our lifes, so... we're breathing borrowed air.

I think the thing to do is enjoy the ride while you're on it.

You see things; and you say 'Why?"
But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

It's the way it works: Love plus time minus distance equals hate.

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

If you see German soldiers, don't panic. They are here to help.