The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.

I believe you have to live the songs.

Sometimes it's hard to be a woman giving all your love to just one man.

I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.

Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

...frankly, many times, the people that we resent either have no idea about it or could care less.

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books.

I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print

Real wealth of a nation is the people.

There are some people, who I'll charitably call snobs, who are dismissive of any conversation that doesn't begin with the full level of complexity. That's just not how the world works.

Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.

Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.