Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.

The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

It is impossible for any woman to love her children twenty-four hours a day.

Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

You have to discover the essence of your life

I want to feel proud and happy about my selflessness. But what happens when being selfless takes away a big part of your self?

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

Spirituality is not a disability - it is a phenomenal empowerment of life.

When you plant early, you bring spring early.

Make the money, don't let the money make you Change the game, don't let the game change you

I've never really done any interviews as myself.

I hate being so emotionally slutty. I need to stop loving everyone I have a long conversation with.

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all.

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government