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.

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

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.

From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails

Be bold and fly toward the unknown. Discover a road that was never known.

Since love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Acting, music, painting... it's very subjective. So what I might think is a great actor, you might think is not a very good actor at all.

But when I cut off my hair I even had friends not recognize me.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.

No penance can your hard heart find save such as you long since have taught me to endure

I don't know how many records I'm selling.