I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.

It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Whatever is true about your heart will show up in your actions.

I went out in my yard and saw a snake, so I got really scared, and I came back inside to get a shovel, and beat the hell out of that snake. Then I didn't have cable for a week.

At the heart of mankind's existence is the desire to be intimate and to be loved by another. Marriage is designed to meet that need for intimacy and love.

He that tells a secret is anothers servant. [He that tells a secret is another's servant.]

I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal laughter. My life's been cartoons and comedy and acting, and it's just been a fun life.

Mama and Papa are more to blame (for delinquency) than the kids; parents should stay home and raise their children and spend less time in taverns.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I'm no good. I can't read.

How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.