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.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

I do not put in long hours at the keys - or very seldom. Instead, I snatch time. I write in the crannies of my life.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.

Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.

...she could only wait for someone, something, to free her from the invisible chains that bound her.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

If I should come out of this war alive, I will have more luck than brains.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

If anything, when you're in your late 20s, early 30s, and then mid-30s, you're getting less attractive.

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.