I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

People should take time to be happy.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Life is what you make it.

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

Failure is a fundamental piece of success.

When you pray as much as you work

Until you really loving, kind, caring, and compassionate, happiness will be an illusion to you.

He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Sports is the toy department of life.

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.

I'm not getting old. I'm getting better.