You know, I don’t know what the future will bring, but I’m ready for whatever comes!

I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

The name Sissy came because my brothers called me that.

I was always proud about being from Texas and, you know, maybe that was part of fearlessness. I love the fact that Texas is so big, but you don't feel small because of that.

I had a dozen years to act before starting a family then found that motherhood dwarfed everything else. Once or twice a year, I take a project that appeals to me for its redeeming social value.

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.

I may be ignorant but I ain't stupid!

You know, your career is just your career; your life is your life!

Texas is just so rich with characters. Women who live alone in a little house on a thousand acres with nothing but cattle and a pickup truck. And an airplane.

My parents were devoted. Civic minded. We had family counsels. Three of us children against two of them. We lived a 'Leave It to Beaver' time.

The profit of the one is the profit of the other.

Blood calls to blood.

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

Is it normal to make a minute-to-minute schedule for the timing of thanksgiving? I'm asking for a friend.

The great thing about having a small family is that there are fewer people to disappoint.

Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.

I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

And when you love a book, commit one glorious sentence of it-perhaps your favorite sentence-to memory. That way you won't forget the language of the story that moved you to tears.

There's the historical part of The Beach Boys' music; it's pretty incredible, pretty vast and pretty varied too.