Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.

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.

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.

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

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.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but by controlling the desire.

I love Christopher Bailey and Burberry, Mulberry for bags, and Hudson for jeans.

I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

The essences of all religions speak of peace, compassion, justice and the interconnection of all life.

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

A change of environment is the traditional fallacy upon which doomed loves, and lungs, rely.