Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. No libraries, no progress.

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.

I celebrate the connections in my life, from my past, present, and future. I joyfully accept love in all its healthy forms!

A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

Fear is excitement without the breath.

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music 'made it' the same way. It's all different. There's no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.