After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Adjusting to the passage of time is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.

I'll never harden my heart but I've toughened the muscles around it.

I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don't know what's goin' on, I then got the money, and gone.