I was baptized alongside my mother when I was 8 years old. Since then, I have tried to walk a Christian life... And now that I'm getting older, I realized that I'm walking even closer with my God.

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.

Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

Mornin', ladies. My goodness, don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.

I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

Hymns are companions for life travelers.

I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.

No amount of money can recover lost time

I wanted to shut my mind, that my thoughts might closeon my own peace, I wanted to closethe peace of my love in my heartlike dew in a dark rose."From "Philip Speaks

It was then I thought of Corsica, the place we had discovered together. I craved the wind, the sun and salt, the simplicity of the island.

It is values that dictate your responses.

I'm a modern Muslim. I pray, and if I have a question, I ask someone who is more educated in the religion than me.

We don't back off obstacles and tough situations, we use them to make us stronger.

The world does not believe the Bible and the church does not obey it.

Hold your tongue if you'd like to keep it." - Jaques

I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.