I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

I'd love to travel to the Holy Land.

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child.

I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

I'm not here only just for a visit

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.

Most of my friends that I know now [were sexually assaulted] stayed silent. And I see that still happening today. A lot of women will stay silent and not share what happened to them.

All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise!

Faith in God is the instrument which enables men and women to remove the hills of difficulty which block their path.