In high school, I weighed 175 to 180. I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was 6-foot-3, biggest thing in the class, but tall, not fat.

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.

The only way to predict if there's a cloud on your horizon due to glaucoma is to get tested. No matter what the diagnosis, the forecast is for clear vision in the years ahead.

The TV weatherman has always been one of the best, most secure jobs. They change anchors, they change the set, producers come and go. But the weather person hangs on forever!

Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all; and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question.

Take a microphone out of my hands, and I'm just plain folks.

Nobody actually talks to anybody anymore. People in cubicles next to each other, they e-mail each other.

As an only child, I never felt insecure and always had total love.

When I can, I do 25 minutes of calisthenics every day.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, "Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?

Work should never make me weary If I'm really meant to do it, But it soon becomes exhausting If it's greed that drives me to it.

I suddenly said, 'I'm sick of losing'. After that, I trained hard and I never lost there again.

I don't sit around and wait for great parts. I'm an actress, and I love being one, and I'll probably be doing it till I'm 72, standing around the back lot doing Gunsmoke.