If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

Power thrills, consistency kills.

Just get out your magic pencil and erase the cloudy skies, and just draw a picture of me saying, I apologize.

Long before I was a star, I was a fan.

Sometimes the best songs almost write themselves

Time is one of my most valuable assets.

In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.

In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Race remains a significant challenge in America.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.