It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.

I always love working with children. I never had children of my own. God has his purposes. God didn't let me have children so everybody's children could be mine. That's kind of how I'm looking at it.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

I just don't have time to get old!

My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.