it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

Your voice dries up if you don't use it.

I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.

Happiness, you'll find, is the greatest magnet in the world.

Don't keep telling your parents they don't understand you. Believe me it's much worse when they do. There's just a chance, you know - they really might.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

The best substitute for money is ingenuity.

When there's friction in the house, the only answer is good manners.

people have a way of laughing at our deams until we make them come true.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

What's happiness for a reader? Be pleasantly surprised by a book from which he expected nothing.

You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn

A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?

Moments like these are fleeting, and we have to grab onto them while we can. From the instant I saw you, I wanted to give you my heart. But today I’ll settle for giving you a flower.

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I don't.

Personality and salesmanship do not produce except in the competitive sense.

Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man.

Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano.