Whenever I drink champagne I either laugh or cry...I get so emotional! I love champagne.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.

In Tennessee where I grew up, there were animals, farms, wagons, mules.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and he's just the most amazing boy. He's so much like Dad sometimes, it's a bit scary.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

Perpetual war for perpetual peace.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

There has been this belief among the Catholic community - and this - I'm no expert, this is my opinion - that cafeteria Catholics are wrong.

Sarah Palin has been tagged and released back into the wild.

Growing up, I never imagined I would be an actor.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.