That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.

The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.

If we don't help each other, who will?

Married, but not to each other.

I was country when country wasn't cool.

And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.

It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, silk flowers and things.

I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off.

Everything I've stated may prove to be total poppycock.... Perhaps time will tell. Perhaps time will do nothing of the kind.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them right. End of job description.

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.