When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.

I'm not a politician. And I don't want to be.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first - it's easy to find when you're looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don't care who you are! I know we're all pieces of the same thing - I go for that common light because I know it's in all of us.

Smile, it increases you face value.

Of course, 'I Will Always Love You' is the biggest song so far in my career. I'm famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.