I don't believe in coincidence. I just think that all things work together for good.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

There was no way we'd ever get spoiled. Daddy made sure to instill in us a work ethic.

I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies.

We heard stories about fakery and decoys at revivals. I never personally saw any trickery.

Sexual harassment is complex, subtle, and highly subjective.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

What most people perceive as energy is really strength of spirit. It comes from the joy of knowing God, loving Him, and being loved by Him.

A fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.

God didn't bless me with success so I could eat caviar every day.

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.

Above all things -- read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

It's a good feeling, that you can put your heart out there, no matter how black it is, and people can understand it.

Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.

I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.