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

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.

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

Hymns are companions for life travelers.

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.

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.

Corporations turned the human into a robot a long time ago.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life

You know the bodysuit that I built my line on? . . .That was about me being able to go directly from work to yoga class. It just wasn't as accepted to talk about then.

The ballot is the only safety.

Keep good company, and you shall be of the number.

The Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.

As someone remarked, when told the new atomic bombs would explode without a bang, "they can't leave anything alone."

Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate — and quickly.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.